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Dubuque launches Bee Branch Gates and Pumps project after $24.65 million in grants
Summary
City officials held a kickoff ceremony for the Bee Branch Gates and Pumps project—part of the Bee Branch Watershed Flood Mitigation Project—outlining new pump capacity, funding sources and a two-year construction timeline.
City of Dubuque officials held a kickoff ceremony for the Bee Branch Gates and Pumps project at the Sixteenth Street Detention Basin, announcing $24,650,000 in state and federal grants to support the next phase of the Bee Branch Watershed Flood Mitigation Project.
The project matters because it is intended to increase pumping capacity and redundancy at the detention basin to reduce the risk of damaging floodwaters reaching Dubuque’s North End. City officials and the project manager described the facility as a key piece of long-term flood resilience following multiple major flood events in the area.
An unnamed city official, City official, City of Dubuque, said the city had secured $24,650,000 in state and federal grants for the Gates and Pumps Project, including what the official described as an $8,700,000 FEMA Community Project Grant and a $7,700,000 U.S. Economic…
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