Cedar river flood

keh · Sep 26, 2016

Visited Cedar Rapids 3-4 years ago, saw the Czech neighborhood that flooded and the museum which they had built a mound to relocate the museum on. What is the status of the flood now? I understand the powers that be have not rebuilt a levee yet, but according to and earlier thread from a couple of days ago those same powers urged businesses to relocate as it wasn't supposed to flood again.

Is the museum mound high enough to protect it this time?

IAGary, don't try to sell any of that lake front property, LOL.

KEH

Russ from MN · Sep 26, 2016

I went to google maps and looked at it, it is up kind of high, hope it's high enough, it's a beautiful building. Photos were taken June 2015.

Aaron SEIA · Sep 26, 2016

Pretty sure the museum got moved to a level above the 32' flood of 08. They have revised this one to just over 23'. Gonna be a mess, but not near what 08 was. As for levees...no one has found a source for the nearly 700 million dollars its suppose to take to build them.
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keh · Sep 26, 2016

Well, I hate it for any community that gets flooded. That museum went to a lot of trouble restoring artifacts that were damaged, like fabrics. I guess the little Czech resturant we ate at is getting flooded now too.

KEH

IaGary · Sep 26, 2016

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.

Gary

IaGary · Sep 26, 2016

There will be very few houses or business flood if the barriers hold, compared to 28. But those sandbagged as best they could.

They are call Hesco barriers not musco as I said earlier.

keh · Sep 26, 2016

Well, Gary, I didn't know the correct name anyway, but there are a lot of flood barriers made. Locally a small stream flooded some bottom land where a shopping center had been built.(the older folks told them that area was known to flood but sometimes moneyed people can't be told anything) One of the stores put in flood resistant doors. The government came in and built a flood control dam,shifting the flooded bottom land up stream away from the town. That stream is not to be compared with the much larger Cedar River and the area flooded here was much less than in Cedar Rapids. Hope the harvest is not being held up too much by the rainfall. We are 6 inches low for the year so far.

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