The city of Cassville has tallied the full effects of three lightning strikes in April that damaged a myriad of equipment.

Richard Asbill, Cassville city administrator, said the city has spent nearly $35,000 to make repairs to damaged equipment at city hall, the Highway 248 water tower area and the wastewater treatment plant.

“[In the April 10 storm], there were three different lightning strikes,” Asbill said. “At city hall, we took a direct hit to our security system and networking. Security cameras, door mags for card readers and three circuit boards that run all our systems were hit. It also blew up a card printer, two paper shredders, some power strips and six outside lights.”

City hall damages totaled $19,769 for the office equipment, card printer, interior and exterior lights, network and security system, with the latter carrying the largest price tag at $12,000.

Asbill said employees were inside city hall when the strike occurred, and the fire department was called to assess a security camera and a card reader that smelled of smoke.

“The second strike hit the water tower on Highway 248, which is where our police department repeater is,” Asbill said. “That is a $14,000 system. Lightning hit the antenna and blew out the system.

“And, the third strike was at the wastewater treatment plant. It knocked out our ultraviolet light control system. That’s a $1,500 cost.”

Regarding operations, Asbill said the security system was interrupted for three days, and network issues persisted for a couple weeks.

“We were up and running but had some issues with printing and internet access,” he said. “We were back to full capacity in three days. All of our billing and accounting [is off-site], so once we got internet access, that helped with operations.

While the police radio system was down, Asbill said the department switched to a backup system that allows officers to use their smart devices as radios. A loaned radio system had police back to their normal radios a couple days after the storm.

“Overall, it was all very disruptive because we had to figure out what to do,” Asbill said.

Affected equipment at city hall and the wastewater treatment plant has been replaced, and the repeater system is set for full replacement in coming weeks. Asbill said the installer is waiting on equipment delivery.