Maps
Preliminary inundation maps for the City of Des Moines Inundation maps for Iowa City Water stage is given according to the USGS (station 05454500) on the Iowa River located just downstream from the Burlington Street bridge in Iowa City. Inundation maps for Waterloo Water stage is given according to the USGS (station 05464000) on the Cedar River at Waterloo. Inundation maps for Charles City Water stage is given according to the USGS (station 05457700) on the Cedar River at Charles City. The inundation maps ware calculated using 2D open channel flow model. River Stage According to USGS Where is the water coming from? A map of upstream basin boundaries for Iowa ...
A Watershed Year: Anatomy of the Iowa Floods of 2008
Edited by Cornelia F. Mutel A Watershed Year is now available! For a list of related programs, to go: www.iowafloodcenter.org/BookPrograms/ Overview: In 2008, the rivers of eastern Iowa rose above their banks to create floods of epic proportions; their amazing size—flowing in places at a rate nearly double that of the previous record flood—and the rapidity of their rise ruined farmlands and displaced thousands of residents and hundreds of businesses. In Cedar Rapids, the waters inundated more than nine square miles of the downtown area; in Iowa City, where the flood was also the most destructive in history, the University of Iowa’s arts campus ...
River Stage Sensors
Project Personnel (University of Iowa): Dr. Anton Kruger (Associate Professor), Jim Niemeier (PhD Student), Matt Kemp (Student), Ben Peiffer (Student) and Nick Sitter (Student) One of the lessons learned from the devastating 2008 floods was that current gauging stations do not provide sufficient data for real-time flood forecasting. Due to the expenses associated with current gauges (costly infrastructure, equipment, and maintenance), it is not feasible to place them at a large number of small, medium, and large streams. The purpose of this project is to develop an affordable monitoring system that can be installed across the state to supplement data from ...
Meet the Director
Dr. Witold F. Krajewski is the Rose & Joseph Summers Chair in Water Resources Engineering at the University of Iowa. He is Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Research Engineer at IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering. In 2009 he was appointed Director of the Iowa Flood Center. He received his M.S. (1976) and Ph.D. (1980) from Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, in environmental engineering and water resources systems. He was a Research Hydrologist at the Office of Hydrology of the National Weather Service until 1987 when he joined The University of Iowa. His scientific interests concern multiple aspects of rainfall ...
Flood Inundation Maps of the Iowa River
Project Personnel (University of Iowa): Dr. Nathan Young (Research Engineer), Andy Craig (Engineer II), Jesse Piotrowski (Graduate Student), Dan Gilles (Graduate Student) The Iowa Flood Center is developing a series of hydrodynamic simulations of the Iowa River along a ten-mile segment of the river from the Coralville Dam to just south of Iowa City. This segment of the river was heavily impacted by the June 2008 floods, resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in damage in Coralville, Iowa City, and on The University of Iowa campus. The hydrodynamic simulations will be used to develop a library of inundation maps along ...
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