HOUGHTON — Crews will be on nearly every street in Hubbell over the next couple of months repairing damage from the Father’s Day Flood or even earlier. 

About $800,000 of work is being done through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), said Torch Lake Township Supervisor Brian Cadwell. Construction began about a week ago. 

“I’m very pleased with FEMA’s response to the damage that has occurred,” he said. “They were complete, they were fairly easy to work with, and gave us a fair deal, I think. You hear people complain about the federal government, but in this case FEMA does a great job making whole people who have suffered catastrophes.”

With road equipment already in town, the township’s road committee developed a plan to do other necessary repairs to roads that were not flood-damaged, but still in poor shape. The $110,000 in repairs will be paid for through the township’s road millage. About 2,240 feet of roadway will be repaired.

“The streets are all pretty old, and some of them are at the end of their life cycle,” Cadwell said. 

Repairs should wrap up by the end of August, Cadwell said. 

“The crews that are doing the work are doing a good job of getting sections of streets done in a single day,” he said.

For next year, the township road committee plans improvements to outlying roads outside the Hubbell area, Cadwell said.