Garrett Neese/Daily Mining Gazette Lake Linden Clerk Bob Poirier discusses the efforts to determine the village’s reimbursement through the Federal Emergency Management Agency for damage sustained in the June 17 flood.

LAKE LINDEN — The village’s work with the Federal Emergency Management Agency on its claim for June flood damage could be wrapped up early next week, Clerk Bob Poirier said Tuesday.

A second assessor who came in for Lake Linden’s projects, a stress and structural expert, had left after working out some details with the FEMA representative, Poirier said. Jean-Paul Pietila of Traverse Engineering met with the FEMA representative Thursday, although Poirier had yet to hear back on how the meeting went.

The damage report will be submitted to FEMA for review, with funding to be determined.

“I don’t have a solid final number yet, but I’ll know by next week what that number for Second Street (is),” Poirier said.

The Escanaba-based Tunnel Vision will send FEMA pictures it obtained today from the Second Street storm tunnel and what they could get through of First Street.

The tunnel immediately above where Second Street washed out had been lined about 10 years earlier. That section fared well. The upper portion of the brick tunnel, which Tunnel Vision looked at, has a stress crack at the top of the tunnel along its length, Poirier said.

“The main issue for FEMA is, it’s obviously damaged,” he said. “But FEMA’s only concerned about the June flood.”

Dick Supina of Traverse Engineering has photos from the lining installation showing it uncracked, Poirier said. However, it will be tough to prove the damage didn’t happen sometime over the next decade prior to the flood, Poirier said.

By contrast, the road reconstruction projects on First and Second streets are fairly straightforward, Poirier said. First Street has been complicated by being multi-jurisdictional, Poirier said.

FEMA will cover the replacement of an inlet grate on Second Street, where Torch Lake Township supplied the grate and Lake Linden performed the work.

Council members discussed performing additional work on First Street, where workers are replacing pipe on a section of the street. Council members said the additional portion, which stretches to M Avenue, could go through the planning process to be ready for spring.