The Galveston County Daily News is reporting that the city will use $107 million in federal disaster aid to rebuild its main wastewater treatment plant and repair other infrastructure damaged by Hurricane Ike. The rebuild will include a retrofit to elevate the treatment facility 13 feet in an attempt to avoid future storm surge damages.
Officials are saying that Galveston is using disaster recovery money instead of Federal Emergency Management Agency funds because FEMA would pay to repair the plant to its previous condition, not improve it, officials said.
Galveston spending infrastructure grant after Ike” (via The Galveston County Daily News)