Flood Recovery
Flood buyout funds approved for Cedar Rapids, other cities
Posted on Nov 06, 2009 by James Q. Lynch.
A garage roof rests against a home on C Street SW on June 16, 2008, after floodwaters began receding across the city. The floodwater neared the top of the second story windows of this home at 18th Avenue SW. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)
Cedar Rapids and other Iowa communities will be receiving $150 million in federal funds for the purchase of 1,352 homes damaged in the historic floods of 2008.
The funds, announced Friday by Gov. Chet Culver, are the first round of $517 million in federal assistance first announced in June by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The Community Development Block Grant funds will go to 20 cities and counties to cover homes not eligible for FEMA buyouts.
The first round of funding covers homes in the 100-year flood plain, or pose a health and safety concern to the community, or have been determined to be substantially damaged. The remaining property owners will need to provide further justification for buyout if they are in the 500-year flood plain and do not pose a health and safety concern or have not been substantially damaged.
That process, which is required by HUD, will begin as soon as possible, the governor’s office said.
The funds are going to:
- Cedar Rapids — 852 properties, $95,474,137
- Oakville – 124 properties, $7,929,015
- Cedar Falls – 101 properties, $10,259,180
- Mason City – 71 properties, $8,517,455
- Iowa City – 52 properties, $11,665,530
- Louisa County (Rural Oakville) – 32 properties, $3,322,951
- Waverly – 28 properties, $3,757,234
- Des Moines – 19 properties, $815,460
- Davenport – 18 properties, $2,213,380
- Des Moines County – 16 properties, $1,953,030
- Dyersville – 10 properties, $1,100,000
- Johnson County — 8 properties, $1,413,308
- Olin — 7 properties, $490,924
- Waterloo — 4 properties, $261,180
- Coralville — 3 properties, $320,958
- Blackhawk County — 2 properties, $323,719
- Cedar County — 2 properties, $104,579
- Muscatine County — 1 properties, $228,769
- LaPorte City — 1 properties, $125,060
- Eddyville — 1 properties, $40,453
- Total number of properties approved: 1,352
- Total funds approved: $150,316,322
glorose
07. Nov, 2009
Can we get a list of these property. So I can see if mine is on the list. If they know it's 852 properties
in Cedar Rapids then they have a list somewhere.
guardian44
07. Nov, 2009
What about those who re-surveyed their land and found they were actually in the 500 year flood
plain after the city map had shown it since 1983 incorrectly 100? The citizens had to pay a surveyor
for an elevation measurement if they wanted a post flood building permit.. They now have landmap amendments from FEMA which indicate their land was listed 100 in error. These homes have been rebuilt. Hope the city does a better job of land mapping this time around. I would like to see that
list of properties that total 852. Why keep it secret?