The Mississippi River inundated downtown Davenport, Iowa, after a flood barrier failed.
The risk of more flooding will hound Iowa's third-largest city for at least a month as the possibility of a wet spring could see an already swollen Mississippi River pushed higher out of its banks, Davenport officials said Wednesday, a day after floodwaters broke through a temporary barrier downtown.
Floodwaters that swamped a couple of blocks of downtown Davenport on Tuesday are not expected to get worse over the coming days, public works director Nicole Gleason said Wednesday. Even with the river set to crest later Wednesday at an estimated 22.4 feet , just short of a record crest set at Davenport in 1993, it would do little to add to the floodwaters already covering the couple of blocks on the river's edge, Gleason said.
The Memorial Bridge connecting Quincy, Illinois, and West Quincy, Missouri, closed Wednesday, forcing all traffic to take the only other bridge in Quincy. Officials said Champ Clark Bridge at Louisiana could also be forced to close if the water gets too high, and several roads along the river have already closed on both sides of the Mississippi.
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