Rep. Dave Loebsack, D-Iowa, and Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, announced the Federal Emergency Management Agency will allocate roughly $8 million to the University of Iowa to construct a flood wall on campus.

The floodwall will surround the Iowa Advanced Technology Laboratories and will be similar to those built at the Art Building West. Iowa Advanced Technology Laboratories was damaged in the flood of June 2008.

Bidding on the construction of the project will take place next year.

— by Brianna Jett