Rain is expected to soak much of Eastern Iowa for the rest of the week, raising concerns over flash flooding in the short-term and adding to the potential for more flooding later in the season. “We have some significant rises on our land already,” said Terry Simmons, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in the [...]
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By J.T. Rushing, correspondent Editor’s note: One in a series of stories on flood protection, a topic that The Gazette considers a content priority for 2013. Five years after record floods devastated Cedar Rapids, funding for flood-prevention plans on the east side of the Cedar River are facing a cloudy future as a result of [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS — The next time you plunge into a city swimming pool, smack a softball or kick a soccer ball on a city field or roast a hot dog in a city park, remember Julie Sina. Think of Sina, too, the first time you venture out to hear some music at the city’s new [...]
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Cedar Rapids police said the death of a woman whose body was found in the Cedar River has been ruled accidental. Teresa L. Cooling, 50, of Cedar Rapids, was found dead near the Ellis Boat Harbor around 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 18. Police launched an investigation and classified the case as an unattended death. Sgt. [...]
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Learn about rain gardens if you’re in the Charles City area, or join a tree-planting celebration in Cedar Rapids tomorrow. Here are details from the Cedar River Watershed Coalition: CEDAR RAPIDS – Over the past week, a number of events have been held across the Cedar River Watershed to celebrate the 40thAnniversary of the Clean [...]
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Last week would have been a better time to write about being extra cautious when it comes to swimming in rivers. Much better to be reminded by a nagging columnist than by the heartbreaking deaths of three young Iowa kids. Police say 7-year-old cousins Sae Reh and Thay Mo and Reh’s 9-year-old sister, Lee [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS — Not all rules are black and white, are they? That’s the question four years after the flood as Cedar Rapids seeks a little leeway for redevelopment inside the 100-year flood plain, where tens of millions of federal disaster dollars have been or are being spent to buy out and demolish some buildings. [...]
continue »The Gazette Editorial Board —- As if the pain of the historic 2008 floods weren’t enough, American Rivers added to our collective discomfort about the state of the Cedar River two years later. The national advocacy group to protect and restore streams rated the Cedar River No. 5 on its most-endangered rivers list, mostly [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS — The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s effort to prepare the area for future floods begins Tuesday in Cedar Rapids. “The focus is now on truly identifying risk and helping to mitigate it and deal with it,” said Ginger Dadds, FEMA project manager. “We’re trying to discover what information the community has to [...]
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UPDATE: Just over 14,000 Linn County residents have cast their votes in today’s referendum on the proposed 10-year extension to the one-cent local-option sales tax, the county auditor’s office reports. Election judges reported 14,040 votes cast at 3 p.m., or 10.1 percent of registered voters. That remains slightly behind voting last May 3, when 11.7 [...]
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