Some improvements to the Storm Lake Wastewater Treatment Plant have been included in the FEMA hazard mitigation project.
          City manager Jim Patrick says the improvements were anticipated to be a separate project funded by the city… but FEMA and Iowa Homeland Security have agreed they can be included in the 17-million dollar project, so they will be eligible for federal and state funds.  The additional cost is 703-thousand dollars…. bringing the total project to 17-point-eight million dollars.  FEMA is paying for 75-percent of the project, with the state paying ten percent.  The city’s portion of the project will increase to 105-thousand dollars, to a total of two-point-six million.
          Patrick says the plans and specs for the project are about 90-percent done.  He says the plans will go back to FEMA for final review yet this month… and the project should to out for bid in September.