(Estherville)– The Estherville City Council Monday approved the acceptance of a $100,000 REAP, or Resource Enhancement and Protection Grant, from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. The funds will go toward the renovation of the bathhouse, or the Phillips Pavilion, at the former city pool location. City Administrator Penny Clayton says it would be part of a much larger plan to develop land along the west Fork of The Des Moines River into a recreational area…
“This is not an authorization to start doing the work on it. This is accepting this grant and then moving along with grant funding. My estimated project for this river restoration project which includes everything from the Phillips Pavilion all the way down to Midway Access and by the old Riverview Golf Course, so that project is quite large. We’re applying for a variety of grants to try to fund that and so some of that money and some of the other grants would go toward this as well.”
Clayton says they continue to work on engineering and design plans for the overall project, which has a total estimated cost of around three million dollars…
“Even though it’s all lumped into one big project, there are phases of this project so that we can bid out separate phases based on the type of work and the type of contractor that does that kind of work. There will be a multitude of different phases in the overall scheme of this when we have all the funds lined up, so.”
Clayton says the timeframe for the overall project will be dependent upon how the funding comes in.
