Lawsuit: 22 years later, FEMA still owes Nashville flood relief funds
Good morning, friends, this is Tennessean storytelling columnist Brad Schmitt.
I was among the thousands of Nashville homeowners hit hard by the 2010 floods. Like many flood victims, I've long since settled up with FEMA (and, thank goodness, was able to pay for most of the damage).
That's not the case with the city of Nashville, which has filed a lawsuit claiming the federal government still owes Metro millions of dollars, our justice reporter, Mariah Timms, writes.
And it seems the city is pretty angry about it, according to what's written in the suit.
"FEMA’s consistent illegal practice of taking years to process Metro Nashville’s appeals rather than adhering to its 90-day statutory deadline made it difficult for (Tennessee Emergency Management Agency) TEMA and Metro Nashville to track the status of Metro Nashville’s 258 appeals to FEMA," the city argued.
"Many of the appeals languished before FEMA for long, unpredictable amounts of time with no response of any kind from FEMA."
The biggest point of contention: Replacing buildings at the K.R. Harrington Water Treatment Facility. Metro asked for $11 million; FEMA paid only around $700,000, the lawsuit said.
Read the whole story here.
And speaking of rain, there were a whole mess of accidents in yesterday's IndyCar race through the streets of downtown Nashville. You can check out those stories here.
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