March 26, 2019
City and county damages are being assessed, which will be an ongoing process during upcoming weeks.
The city is currently nearly positive, though, that the levee which upheld the torrential flow of the Loup River over the course of the past, will need some repair.
Though it didn’t suffer a breach, the constant ripping of water and smashing of ice against it undoubtedly caused some damage.
Last week, the Army Corps of Engineers was in Columbus assessing the damage and checking out the structure’s integrity.
“The thing I want to stress, and you hear the comment, and we are hearing it more now with the Corps (of Engineers) in town, that there is a lot of damage to the levee. And we did not see extensive damage to the levee,” Mayor Jim Bulkley said on Friday.
“That is why the Corps is here, that’s why they have to come and assess. I don’t want anyone in this community to think that there is a gaping hole somewhere in our levee because we are talking about damage. There will be some repair work which is expected. The volume of water that beat up against the sides of that levee, there should be some damage, there should be some things. Common sense tells you there are some things that we need to fix."
