Manhattan estimates flood damage to be in the millions

The City of Manhattan has come out with estimates of the damage caused by the Labor Day Wildcat Creek flood — and the cost is in the millions.

Manhattan City Manager Ron Fehr was on Tuesday’s edition of KMAN’s In Focus and said the flash flooding caused $17.2 million in damage. He broke that down into private and public real estate damage — $14.5 million of which was sustained by private structures while $2.7 million was sustained by city property.

Additionally, Fehr said that a dozen properties suffered damage amounting to “50 percent or more” of the property’s value or had suffered damage in successive storms amounting to 25 percent or more of their property’s value. Of those properties, eight were residential and four were commercial.

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