(Image from the City of Appleton)
The estimated cost to the City of Appleton to clean up from last month’s storm is $715,000 dollars.
Public Works Director Paula Vandehey says they’re going to meet with FEMA representatives today in hopes the city will get some federal disaster funding. She says the storm knocked down a lot of the city’s trees along streets and in parks. She says they lost between 750 and 1,000 trees, and it will take at least another week to collect everything.
The estimate only covers city-owned trees and not ones that fell on private property. Vandehey says the city forester thinks it could take until the spring of 2021 to finish planting replacement trees throughout Appleton.
