Locke Announces $30 Million for Flood Recovery

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By Becky Ogann

Story Created: Apr 9, 2010 at 1:27 PM CDT

Story Updated: Apr 9, 2010 at 5:47 PM CDT

IOWA CITY (AP) - Commerce Secretary Gary Locke has announced $30 million in federal aid to help Iowa recover from the devastating floods of 2008.

Speaking Friday in Iowa City, Locke noted $25 million would go to raise Dubuque Street, one of the city's main streets that runs along the Iowa River, raise a bridge and relocate a water treatment plant.

Locke says $2.9 million will go to Columbus Junction, where the Iowa and Cedar rivers join, to move that town's wastewater treatment plant out of the flood plain. Another $1.5 million will go to Dubuque to build a multilevel parking garage with outlets for electric vehicles.

And $232,000 will go to Shenandoah, in southwest Iowa, to help rebuild that city's storm sewer system.

Locke was joined by Gov. Chet Culver, Rep. Dave Loebsack and other officials.

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