(Estherville)– The Estherville City Council this (Monday) evening heard an update from City Administrator Penny Clayton regarding the flood and ongoing recovery efforts. Clayton says the believe the West Fork of the Des Moines River in Estherville crested at more than 18 feet recently, but they’re unsure on the exact number because a monitoring gauge broke…
Clayton says the city’s primary focus immediately following the big rain June 21st was on protecting infrastructure…
Clayton says representatives with the Federal Emergency Management Agency are now in Estherville as the city enters the recovery phase…
Clayton adds a power outage that impacted most of Estherville this past Saturday was NOT flood-related.
Clayton says crews have established various interconnects with Iowa Lakes Electric Cooperative to help minimize any future outages, flood-related or not. She says the interconnects not only can provide power to the city, but she says the opposite is true in that the city can provide power to Iowa Lakes Electric Cooperative in the event that system has an outage.
