With blue treatment solution and other runoff from 12 knocked-over portable toilets to her right pooling on the curb of the sidewalk in front of her, Kum & Go employee Christyn Frank swept shards of broken glass from the store’s eight broken windows, as pieces of cardboard sat duct-taped over the broken glass door in front of her that read “closed” in red marker.

“We’ll have to power-wash the whole lot,” Harold Horni, 203 Welch Ave. Kum & Go store manager, said to Frank. “We spent 14 hours cleaning up the store in getting it ready for Veishea and store tours, and now, we’ll have to spend more than that to get this all cleaned up.”

The runoff and shards of glass — along with wrappers, paper cups, food and other trash that littered the streets of Welch Avenue — were the leftovers of a five-hour riot that ensued outside the storefront early Sunday morning.

Business owners, city employees and students began the process Sunday of trying to restore the area to what it was before the rash of vandalism of 11 Campustown businesses, along with ISU and city property.

Kum & Go took the brunt of the force from rioters in the beginning, Frank said.

As of Sunday, Horni did not know the estimated amount of damage caused.

With the glass from the store’s two front doors waiting to fall, Horni said the store would be closed, as it would take all day for employees to clean and fix damages.

“It’s very disappointing. We’re here to provide a service to the crowd, and then we get pummeled, and we have absolutely nothing to do with what transpired,” he said.

“What’s even more disappointing is the guys that actually cost us are our customer base, because it was a majority of students in the crowd.”

Jennifer Doty, former manager of Vogue Vision Center, 223 Welch Ave., said she shared Horni’s sentiments. Doty, who now works for the Vogue in Des Moines, received a call from Ames Police because her name and number are still listed as the person to contact if damage is caused to the store.

“There’s glass in the bathroom. They’ve had to have thrown that stuff hard,” Doty said. “And they wonder why people don’t come back for Veishea anymore.”

Ed Huffman, owner of Huffman Construction, 2223 Edison St., surveyed the damage and said it would cost both stores — Vogue and Golden Wok, 223 Welch Ave. — about $5,200 to replace window panes.

Paul Wiegand, Ames public works director, and street supervisor Dave Cole, were on the scene at 6:45 a.m., surveying damage and evaluating the work ahead of them.

“We can have a lot of it done within three or four hours,” Cole said. “By noon, I’d hope for it to look better, if we can get all the people together.”

Wiegand said the city would need about half a dozen people from his office, in conjunction with people from Ames traffic and utilities services, to restore the area.

“It looks like a battle zone down here — there’s no reason for this,” said Robert Josephson, co-owner of Mayhem Collectible, 2532 Lincoln Way.

However, this battle zone was quickly transformed, said Veishea general co-chairman Nate Meier. Meier said a group of 15 volunteers started picking up trash and Veishea items at 8:30 a.m.

At that time, he said, city employees already had a good start, as dump trucks and a loader picked up the big debris to be hauled off while two water trucks with pressure washers started hosing down the street.

“The city did an excellent job. They had a majority of the cleanup done before people started waking up to see what happened,” Meier said. “It looked very presentable.”

He said it took Veishea members until about 10 a.m. to get all their cleanup done, with the city wrapping up practically all of the cleanup work around 11 a.m., which he said was just in the nick of time, as people started to flow to Welch Avenue.

“It was bumper-to-bumper traffic,” Meier said. “It was unusual to have Welch Avenue that busy on a Sunday morning. Everyone wanted to see what had happened, and luckily by then most of it was cleaned.”