116 3rd St SE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401
City to direct FEMA funds to fix electrical service in Ellis Boat Harbor
The City Council was set Tuesday to approve plans to spend up to $200,000 to repair the city's portion of an electrical system bringing power to the houses and boats at the Ellis Boat Harbor.
The money will come from $896,137 in disaster funds obligated to the city for the harbor by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
About $105,000 of the funds has been spent to date to replace boat slips in the harbor. Another $75,000 will be used for Alliant Energy's portion of the needed electrical repairs, with other of the funds going to repair damaged sheet piling, sidewalks and roadways, the city states.
A crew from Tri-State Crane & Rigging Service lifts a boat house belonging to Carl Cortez out of the water so new floats filled with extruded polystyrene foam can be installed at Ellis Park in Cedar Rapids in July 2009. (Cliff Jette/The Gazette)
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