Utah residents, businesses hurt by early August flooding can apply for federal loans

Residents or businesses in several counties can apply for hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal loans to recover from damage left by flooding on August 3rd and 4th.

DRAPER, Utah — Ryan Archer's basement is a complete loss after flooding in Draper on August 3rd. With more than $100,000 in damages, flooding took away some things you just can’t put a price on.

This week, the U.S. Small Business Administration announced that any residents or businesses in Salt Lake, Davis, Utah, Tooele, Summit, Morgan and Wasatch counties can apply for hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal loans to recover from damage left by flooding on August 3rd and 4th. Archer is bummed he has to take out a loan to fix his basement due to what he believes is negligence on Draper’s part.

However, Bret Millburn, the assistant city manager for Draper, says what happened was a once-every-500-years kind of event and to build infrastructure to stop that kind of flooding is not feasible.

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