Haverhill, West Newbury and Lawrence are sharing in nearly $30 million in state grants designed to help communities prepare for flooding, heat waves and wildfires. Haverhill joins Lynn and Holyoke to use $150,000 for the Building on HEAL program. In West Newbury, for example, $426,938 was awarded to work toward development of alternatives to address flooding and erosion along River Road and the bordering Merrimack River shoreline. Lawrence’s River to Refuge: Tower Hill Waterfront received one of the larger awards of a little more than $1 million. While the state continues to pay for extreme weather preparedness, it has recently omitted the term “climate change” that previously appeared in its statements on the subject.