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Springfield begins two-year feasibility study with Army Corps for 40 Second Street levee; federal cap raised to $15 million
Summary
Springfield city staff told the Budget Committee that a two-year feasibility study with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will assess improvements to the 40 Second Street levee, with the Corps’ federal cap recently increased to $15,000,000 and a likely 65% federal/35% local cost share.
Springfield city staff told the Budget Committee on May 13 that the city has entered a feasibility phase with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to assess improvements to the 40 Second Street levee, a roughly one-mile berm that protects about one-third of Springfield from floodwaters.
Ken Bogany, the city’s emergency manager and the project manager for the levee effort, said the Corps is treating the work under a ‘‘small cost’’ program that was recently increased from a $10 million cap to a $15,000,000 cap. He told the committee the overall federal cost share for the eventual project would be about 65% with a 35% local match.
The feasibility phase, Bogany said, will run about two years and will include environmental permitting, predesign, and geotechnical work. ‘‘We’re hiring a contractor to go out and actually drill some holes, dig some holes, and find out…
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