Contaminated corn just one of a number of issues
Demolishing the former Sinclair meatpacking plant now is expected to cost $15.3 million, a sum that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is slated to pay in its entirety.
This week, the City Council is amending the demolition contract between the city and local demolition contractor D.W. Zinser Co. of Walford, increasing the existing contract of $7.366 million to the $15.3-million figure. The initial part of contract was for the initial phase of the demolition.
FEMA agreed to pay for the demolition after it concluded that the city-owned plant, parts of which the city had been leasing out to small businesses at the time of the June 2008 flood, posed an “imminent threat” to public health and safety because of flood damage and two post-flood fires.
In recent days, Greg Eyerly, the city’s flood-recovery director, noted that moldy corn that had been stored at the former packinghouse was going to add a bit to the demolition expense, an addition on Monday that he estimated would be $150,000.
Read more here.
