By Karen Antonacci, Times-Call
Three years after the September 2013 flood destroyed a large portion of Longmont’s public infrastructure, there’s a group of six people tucked away in a hard-to-find office helping the city recover.
Recover its money.
After the flood, Federal Emergency Management Agency employees arrived to assess the damage. The result: Longmont’s damage alone was enough to qualify the entire county for federal disaster recovery dollars.
FEMA said it would reimburse Longmont $55 million to repair bridges, roads, the wastewater treatment plant, the St. Vrain River itself and other infrastructure. FEMA’s $55 million reimbursement would represent 75 percent of eligible costs, while the state offered to reimburse the city for another 12.5 percent.
But it’s not that simple.
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