The infrastructure projects include a nearly $3 million stormwater drainage project and installing new wells, storage tanks and generators.
Part of its $8.25 million funds will be used to equip the traffic signals with backup batteries, cameras and LED lights after hurricane Ike knocked out all the League City’s traffic signals.
City’s director of planning and research, Tony Allender, said that the $8.25 million allocated to League City likely will be the last round of disaster recovery funds related to Hurricane Ike.
Allender said that the city’s major project will be massive drainage improvement plan for the Shellside area.
“People took water in the area and it’s a hard place to drain,” Allender said referring during Hurricane Ike.
The project will cost nearly $3 million while other uses of the block grant funds include about $1.5 million for new wells and storage tanks at the Dickinson Water Plant and more than $500,000 for new generators at lift stations.
The city is proposing to install battery backups that can keep traffic signals running for eight to 10 more hours.
Allender said this is to keep from getting left in the dark if another major storm hits.
Cameras will be set up at 59 intersections that would allow city administrators to monitor an intersection during an evacuation or to see if debris was blocking the road.
“We had to take police officers and have them man sites,” he said adding that “it basically pulled them from things they needed to be doing for emergency response.”