U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet saw the fruits of his congressional labor Friday when he visited Longmont’s Resilient St. Vrain, the city’s signature flood project that resulted from the 2013 flood.

The $133 million project, which could take seven to 10 years to complete, aims to reduce the flood plain by reconstructing the channel of the St. Vrain Creek, which runs through Longmont. The city hopes to eventually restore parks, trails and other greenways along the creek as  buffers to secure the city against a 100-year flood.

Longmont was one of the hard-hit communities when 29 inches of rain fell in two days in Boulder County and flooding last for four in September 2013. The flood killed 10 people and left $4 billion in damage across 24 counties. In Boulder County four people were killed, 77 homes were destroyed and at least 607 homes sustained major damage.

Longmont was bisected and Lyons was isolated as the St. Vrain Creek swelled.

According to his office, Bennet convinced Congress to lift a $100 million cap on emergency highway aid to $450 million, and he helped get a total of about $320 million in disaster recovery block grants. The Democratic senator from Denver also sought emergency federal aid for to remove storm to clear streams before the 2014 spring runoff.

His office also noted that he urged the U.S, Department of Agriculture to $14 million from its Emergency Watershed Protection to Colorado, which supported stream work along the St. Vrain Creek in and upstream from Lyons. In December 2014 he helped get $56.9 million more from the USDA fund to tackle other watershed problems caused by the flood.