Flood Sensor Gives Early Warning
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Residents in one North Iowa community will be more prepared the next time heavy floods hit the area.
The city of Greene, IA entered into a pilot program with the Iowa Flood Center to install a sensor on the Gates Bridge in Floyd County which is about five [...]
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RIO Press Release
For Immediate Release
May 20, 2010
WORKING TO RECOVER: IOWA FLOOD CENTER PROVIDES KNOWLEDGE, TOOLS TO UNDERSTAND FLOODS
Iowans Directly Benefit from Research Done on Watersheds, Floods and Flood Predictions
DES MOINES – Iowans must understand flooding in order to learn how to live with and prepare for floods, said Witold Krajewski, director [...]
A watershed year: Mutel’s book examines causes, lessons of the 2008 floods
By Stephen Schmidt
SOLON ECONOMIST
IOWA CITY- Rural Solon resident Connie Mutel is a historian and archivist at IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering, a research institute within the University of Iowa’s College of Engineering. She is also an author, and was responsible for assembling and editing the book, [...]
New book examines the flood’s causes and effects
by Steve Gravelle
Cedar Rapids
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Flooding the Pages
By Josie Jones
Daily Iowan
Connie Mutel’s earliest memories are of plants. The historian and archivist of the UI’s IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering institute said she is much happier when in nature, and she depends on the natural world for her mental health.
Because she was in Switzerland when the 2008 floods hit eastern Iowa, she was [...]
Draining problem: Book ties row crops to flooding problems
By Matthew Wilde
WCF Courier
CEDAR FALLS – Major floods statistically have little chance of occurring in the Cedar Valley. But they do – twice in 15 years.
The Cedar River and other Northeast Iowa waterways inundated residential neighborhoods and farm fields in historic fashion in 2008 and 1993. With [...]
By Alma Gaul
Quad-City Times
In June 2008, the rivers of eastern Iowa rose above their banks to create floods of epic proportions, ruining farm fields and displacing thousands of residents and businesses.
Many people still are struggling to recover; some never will.
A new book, “A Watershed year: Anatomy of the Iowa Floods of 2008,” edited by Cornelia [...]
UI engineering students design flood sensor
By Kellie Petersen
Daily Iowan
When it came time for a group of UI engineering students to begin their project for the Capstone Senior Design class, they turned to the floods of 2008 for inspiration.
But their inspiration may have come less from the floods themselves than from how [...]
By James Q. Lynch
Des Moines Bureau
DES MOINES — Witold Krajewski has a vision for a low-cost, real-time early warning system to improve Iowa’s ability to make emergency management decisions protect Iowans from flooding.
Krajewski, director of the University of Iowa Flood Center, told lawmakers Wednesday that Iowa’s 25,000 bridges could become part of a stream-level monitoring [...]
On January 4, 2010, Iowa Flood Center Director Witold Krajewski shared the Center’s 6 month progress report with Iowa Senator Rob Hogg and representatives from various state, county, and municipal organizations at a Cedar River watershed meeting in Cedar Rapids. The report details several major projects underway to improve Iowa’s flood monitoring and prediction capabilities, acknowledges the Center’s agency and [...]
