Articles Tagged: Flood Recovery & Protection

Matthew 25 Ministry Hub, which brightened flooded neighborhoods with flower pots after the 2008 flood, is moving into backyards. As …

Iowa City staff want to build a levee to protect Baculis and Thatcher mobile home parks, which were swamped in …

Several Eastern Iowa individuals and organizations are among a group of recipients of the Working to Recover: Rebuild Iowa Award …

Hoping to head off bureaucratic delays, Linn County supervisors this morning transferred Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funding from the …

The Czech Village Association is beginning a fundraising drive to reconstruct the Riverside Roundhouse. The estimated cost to rebuild the …

Remember the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s objection last week to Linn County’s new juvenile justice center project? Never mind. After …

City Hall has taken a blow to its flood-recovery plans. On Friday, city officials learned that the Federal Emergency Management …

Last month was the wettest June on record in Iowa, and the second wettest month in the state’s history. Now …

More than 300 flood victims picked up paperwork on Thursday, the first day it was available, to apply for city …

The United States Senate has approved a three-month extension of the National Flood Insurance Program, which expired on May 31 …

Mystery solved. Historians seeking a missing piece of the former Brosh Chapel’s history didn’t have to look far. Steve Van …

John Bloomhall, president and chief executive officer of Diamond V Mills in Cedar Rapids, is featured in the July 2010 …

Linn County supervisors have a quick and easy workaround to a sudden change in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funding for …

Some homes in Cedar Rapids flood zones may be salvaged through a new program. The Residential Property Disposition program will …

WASHINGTON – Iowa’s businesses, hospitals, universities and cities, including Cedar Rapids, have hired lobbyists to help them look out for …