Posted by IaGary on September 26, 2016 at 17:42:53 from (208.126.23.226):
In Reply to: Cedar river flood posted by KEH on September 26, 2016 at 06:31:45:
Yes the museum will be fine.
They built 9 miles of musco(sp) barriers in 3 days to form a temporary levee along the river in CR. The barrier is at 28 feet the water is suppose to get to 23 feet. Actual height of the barrier varies form 4 feet to 8 feet.
My son in law spent 36 hours in his Johnson County (Cedar Rapids is in Linn Co) dump truck hauling sand along with about 75 other dump trucks Friday,Saturday and Sunday.
They are in wait and see mode in CR to se if the barriers will hold. So far so good at 21.5 feet of water.
The Iowa river parallels the Cedar river and did not get as much rain last Wednesday. The Iowa has a reservoir just above Iowa City. The 2 rivers meet downstream about 20 miles. So they are going to fill the reservoir on the Iowa to help save the areas down stream. Thus when the reservoir fills I will have lakeside property again.
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