{"id":11017,"date":"2019-05-31T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=11017"},"modified":"2019-05-31T22:29:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T03:29:56","slug":"traer-gets-dnr-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/traer-gets-dnr-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Traer gets DNR grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11018\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/traermap1913clip.jpg\" width=\"356\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/traermap1913clip.jpg 356w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/traermap1913clip-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>October 1913:<\/strong> Excerpt from Sanborn Co. map showing Traer&#8217;s power plant.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iowadnr.gov\/About-DNR\/DNR-News-Releases\/ArticleID\/2462\/DNR-Derelict-Building-Grant-Program-makes-awards-to-13-rural-communities\">May 23 press release<\/a> from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources has three items worthy of blog posts.<\/p>\n<p>The first is the closest to home: &#8220;City of Traer\u2014 $20,000 to abate asbestos from the old coal power plant. City will remove building in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/@42.1932672,-92.4639549,3a,75y,172.16h,89.59t\/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sWOVHVWiuqfr3wHT1N-9C0w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656\">building in question<\/a> is right beside City Hall and has the town siren on top. Its rear was half a block from the railroad tracks. I had the chance once of getting to hear some stories about the coal-fired power plant while I was waiting for a haircut. To my chagrin, I didn&#8217;t write enough down.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: As seen from the alley, May 31, 2019.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11039\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/traercoalplant.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/traercoalplant.jpg 800w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/traercoalplant-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 1913: Excerpt from Sanborn Co. map showing Traer&#8217;s power plant. A May 23 press release from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources has three items worthy of blog posts. The first is the closest to home: &#8220;City of Traer\u2014 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/traer-gets-dnr-grant\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tama-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11017"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11040,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11017\/revisions\/11040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}