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The reconstruction was supervised by VJ Engineering and construction was completed by Iowa Bridge and Culvert of Washington, Iowa. A ribbon cutting ceremony was held in October 2012 to open the bridge to the public again. It had been closed for four years following the devastation of the 2008 flood. Sutliff Bridge, showing damage from 2008 flood.
A Parker truss bridge, it was built in 1897 and 1898 at a cost of approximately $12,000. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] J. R. Sheely was the engineer for the original Sutliff Bridge. After a modern replacement was built over the Cedar in 1983, the bridge was slated for destruction, but it was ultimately saved, [ 5 ] and on May 15, 1998, it was added to the ...
Severe flooding in the Midwest has left at least two people dead as heavy rains caused a bridge to collapse, a historic dam to be on the brink of failure and an entire town to be cut off by ...
At 3:43 am on the morning of June 14, the National Weather Service in Des Moines Iowa issued a Flash Flood Warning for the City of Des Moines due to a 50-foot-wide (15 m) levee breach along the Des Moines River in Des Moines near Birdland Park between 6th Avenue and New York Avenue.
Below is a list of covered bridges in Iowa. There are nine authentic covered bridges in the U.S. state of Iowa, though two halves of one bridge reside in different locations. [1] Six of them are historic. A covered bridge is considered authentic not due to its age, but by its construction.
Fred Schwengel Memorial Bridge connects LeClaire, Iowa to Rapids City, Illinois; Gateway Bridge, connects Clinton, Iowa to Fulton, Illinois; Government Bridge, Davenport, Iowa to Rock Island, Illinois; Great River Bridge, connects Burlington, Iowa to Gulf Port, Illinois; I-74 Bridge, Bettendorf, Iowa to Moline, Illinois
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The highway bridge was reopened the following day. [citation needed] On June 17, 2008, the bridge was closed due to flooding. [1] Every year on the second Saturday of May the Great River Bridge Race is run. The 6-mile (9.7 km) race starts at the Iowa on ramp and runs the first mile in Iowa including running up Snake Alley.