Amador County – The Plymouth City Council will get a letter from the Federal Emergency Management Association Thursday notifying them of $176,000 dollars worth of reimbursements the city will receive for storm damages suffered in 2006. The letter is among correspondence the council received in its agenda packet this week, including a February 11th letter from the California Emergency Management Agency’s public assistance officer, Charles Rabamad. City Clerk Gloria Stoddard said the reimbursements came from storm damage and resulting money spent to make repairs. City Engineer Roark Weber said “One of the reasons we got all of the money back was that Gloria did such a good job keeping track of all of the records.” Weber said one city project was repair to a failed earthen ditch around the city’s storage pond that holds the city’s treated secondary effluent as part of the city sewer treatment plant. Ditch failed and rain runoff flowed into the pond. Weber said the “City got it repaired and FEMA reimbursed it 100 percent.” That was listed as a “large project” in a January 15th FEMA letter, which approved the project original estimated amount for the repair at $65,000 dollars. The sewer pond ditch repair totaled $98,900 dollars and was reimbursed in full, along with $77,123 dollars paid by the city for other repairs from damage resulting from the 2006 storm. Weber said the jobs included fixing the intersection of Poplar and Mill Streets at Highway 49, where the road sunk in, leaving a hole 3 feet in diameter, 2 feet deep. The intersection now has a head wall with a steel protective rail on top. Empire Street at Highway 49 also flooded, causing the street to fall apart. It was resurfaced, and given miscellaneous drainage improvements. The city also fixed a damaged headwall on Sutter Street and repaired a dirt access road to the sewer plant spray field area, which washed out when the creek along Old Sacramento Road overflowed its bank. Weber said “Working with Cal-EMA is a treat. People in the governor’s office – the staff was a great help. It was a real pleasure to work with them.” He said “It wasn’t like the bad news that you hear about FEMA.” The repair work has been done for the last 6 or 8 months. Story by Jim Reece This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Tuesday, 24 February 2009 23:42
Plymouth City Council: FEMA
Amador County – The Plymouth City Council will get a letter from the Federal Emergency Management Association Thursday notifying them of $176,000 dollars worth of reimbursements the city will receive for storm damages suffered in 2006. The letter is among correspondence the council received in its agenda packet this week, including a February 11th letter from the California Emergency Management Agency’s public assistance officer, Charles Rabamad. City Clerk Gloria Stoddard said the reimbursements came from storm damage and resulting money spent to make repairs. City Engineer Roark Weber said “One of the reasons we got all of the money back was that Gloria did such a good job keeping track of all of the records.” Weber said one city project was repair to a failed earthen ditch around the city’s storage pond that holds the city’s treated secondary effluent as part of the city sewer treatment plant. Ditch failed and rain runoff flowed into the pond. Weber said the “City got it repaired and FEMA reimbursed it 100 percent.” That was listed as a “large project” in a January 15th FEMA letter, which approved the project original estimated amount for the repair at $65,000 dollars. The sewer pond ditch repair totaled $98,900 dollars and was reimbursed in full, along with $77,123 dollars paid by the city for other repairs from damage resulting from the 2006 storm. Weber said the jobs included fixing the intersection of Poplar and Mill Streets at Highway 49, where the road sunk in, leaving a hole 3 feet in diameter, 2 feet deep. The intersection now has a head wall with a steel protective rail on top. Empire Street at Highway 49 also flooded, causing the street to fall apart. It was resurfaced, and given miscellaneous drainage improvements. The city also fixed a damaged headwall on Sutter Street and repaired a dirt access road to the sewer plant spray field area, which washed out when the creek along Old Sacramento Road overflowed its bank. Weber said “Working with Cal-EMA is a treat. People in the governor’s office – the staff was a great help. It was a real pleasure to work with them.” He said “It wasn’t like the bad news that you hear about FEMA.” The repair work has been done for the last 6 or 8 months. Story by Jim Reece This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
