Flood waters were expected to roll down the Mississippi River and reach Davenport, Iowa, late Tuesday. The peak crest may be between 22 and 22.5 feet, which will be just short of the 1993 record of 22.6 feet.
Davenport is the largest urban area on the upper Mississippi without a permanent flood wall. Volunteers and National Guard soldiers have built a clay-and-sandbag levee spanning 1,200 feet along River Drive to protect downtown businesses. Behind the levee, nine diesel- and gasoline-driven pumps removed water that seeped through storm sewers and bubbled up through cracks in the street from the saturated soil underneath.
A spokeswoman for the state Emergency Management Division said that 1,115 Iowa homes had suffered flood damage through Monday. Three hundred people have been evacuated, most of them residents of Abel-Essman Island near Guttenberg.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency plans a visit later in the week to discuss the repeated bailouts for flood victims. The Davenport mayor, who is opposed to construction of a flood wall, said it isn’t right to punish residents for dealing with a natural disaster. Davenport uses the unobstructed river view as a tourist attraction with a gain of $100 million dollars.
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