The Upper Mississippi River will rise to near record-high levels as it flows through Wisconsin and Iowa, but officials said they expected to hold back floodwaters with a combination of flood walls, temporary barriers and wetlands.
The high water is due to the quick melting of a giant snowpack in northern Minnesota that is slowly moving down the approximately 2,300-mile river that will ultimately empty into the Gulf of Mexico.
Major cities in Iowa and Illinois won't see the river crest until early next week, and then it will take about 10 days to recede to more normal levels. Bettendorf and Moline, Illinois, have flood walls, he noted. Neighboring Davenport doesn't have a flood wall, but makes use of parkland that can flood and portable sand-filled barriers that protect the downtown in the city of 100,000 people, he said.Upriver in La Crosse, Wisconsin, flooding was under control. Mayor Mitch Reynolds credited advanced warning, an improved sewer system, and use of a marsh to sponge up floodwaters.
The flooding has forced the Army Corps of Engineers to close more than a dozen locks, stopping barges relied upon by farmers and the region's manufacturers.
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