The Spectator Floods can strike with surprising speed, and they often occur in unexpected places. That’s why — even in December — the Iowa Flood Center (IFC) at the University of Iowa continues to expand a network of affordable stream sensors. Attached to the downstream side of bridges, the sensors provide Iowans with an up-to-the-minute [...]
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Iowa City Press Citizen Where Governor Street passes over Ralston Creek, a small gray box clings to the east side of the bridge. While it is only one of five in the state with a larger-than-normal solar panel, the box is now one of 100 Iowa Flood Center water-level sensors in Iowa. To further expand [...]
Iowa City Press-Citizen … Just as concerning, however, is that the governor’s proposal does not include funding for the Iowa Flood Center at the University of Iowa. The center was founded in 2009 and in the past has received $1.3 million annually. … Read More …
(KCRG-TV) The Iowa Flood Center has doubled the number of its flood sensors across the state. … Read More … Other Similar Stories: Center Adds New Flood Sensors (KCCI-TV) Iowa Flood Center Doubles Sensors to 100 (Mason City Globe Gazette) Iowa Flood Center Doubles Sensors to 100 (KTIV-TV)
(Iowa Environmental Focus) The Iowa Flood Center has utilized the state’s unusually mild start to winter by installing an additional 50 electronic stream stage sensors across Iowa. Read more …
A University of Iowa renewable energy project is using woody biomass to stimulate the local economy. The school has formed a biomass partnership project with participants from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, National Conservation Resources Service, Iowa State University, the University of Northern Iowa and the Iowa Flood [...]
Flood Center, DNR partnership offers Iowans online view of potential flood sites University of Iowa News Release: Floods can strike with surprising speed, and they often occur in unexpected places. That’s why — even in December — the Iowa Flood Center (IFC) at the University of Iowa continues to expand a network of affordable stream [...]
Local governments to decide authority of new watershed management agencies The Gazette (Click here to view the full article)
A recent volunteer clean-up effort has resulted in 17 tons of trash being removed from the Iowa River, according to a news release from the Iowa City Public Works Department. A team of 53 volunteers boarded 33 canoes on Oct. 9 to pull trash from the river and its banks, much of which had been [...]
By Jean Caspers-Simmet, Agri-News CHARLES CITY, Iowa — Forty legislators, mayors, county supervisors and soil and water conservation district commissioners attended the recent Upper Cedar River Watershed Tour in Floyd County. … The tour was sponsored by Floyd, Bremer, Mitchell, and Butler Soil and Water Conservation Districts, the Iowa Flood Center, the University of Iowa, [...]
