Federal and state money will repair Grand Coulee streets

The state Transportation Improvement Board is covering Grand Coulee’s match in a large grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency awarded to repair street damage from the harsh 2016-17 winter.

In late 2017, FEMA awarded Grand Coulee $853,990 in the form of a grant that requires a 12-percent match.

The TIB is covering that match, equal to $106,750.

The $957,639 total will go toward improving city streets that suffered some damage from the harsh winter of 2016-17, as well as the wear and tear of time.

To be repaired are “pieces from about every road in town,” said City Clerk Lorna Pearce.

Construction will start in 2019.