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Honduras is spending 1.4 billion lempiras (about $56 million) this year on dike and levee reinforcement across the Sula Valley—the largest such investment on record—using innovations like riprap and Concrete Canvas to shield San Manuel, La Lima, El Progreso, Puerto Cortés, and Choloma from flooding.

The government is deploying Concrete Canvas, a reinforced geomesh system, on levees in the Sula Valley to increase their resistance to flooding and give communities more time to evacuate before potential river overflows.

Of 32 dike and flood-control projects underway across the Sula Valley ahead of the rainy season, only six are finished, 26 are roughly half-done, and several have not started, with the Infrastructure Ministry estimating completion in July.

Honduras is conducting laboratory testing on soil and rock samples from dyke-reconstruction projects in the Sula Valley to ensure materials can withstand flooding and river swelling, with tests including soil classification, permeability, and structural-load capacity.

Work is progressing on flood-protection levees at Finca 28 in El Negrito, Yoro, designed to shield communities and farmland from inundation.