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Okoboji City Council Awards Bid On Dixon Beach Repairs

November 26, 2024 Steve Schwaller

(Okoboji)– The Okoboji City Council Monday approved a bid for repairs to some city owned shoreline at Dixon Beach that was heavily damage in the June flood. City Administrator Michael Meyers says it’s in the area of where The Inn used to be…

“We had a pretty significant washout of our shoreline there. We had an old seawall that’s probably, oh gosh, 80 to 100 years-old that washed out and fell over as part of that high water event. So the city needed to restore that shoreline and so we’re planning on doing that just basically with rip-rapping the tow there with a two-to-one slope. Yesterday at our council meeting the city council approved a bid for that project and we’re looking forward to moving forward with that and hopefully getting it done yet still this winter. We’re really trying to get this project done before the lake freezes over just so the freeze and thaw of the lake doesn’t do more damage to the shoreline.”

Meyers says the bid was in line with what they were expecting…

“The final bid was $46,688. We are working closely with FEMA as part of this so we’re having expectation that FEMA will help cover 75 percent of this project and the state of Iowa will cover an additional 10 percent, so the overall out-of-pocket for the city should be just over seven thousand dollars.”

Meyers adds work continues on some of the other impacted shorelines within the city. He says some of those are nearing completion now.

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