Last year, Rock Island needed to rent pumps in order to get water out of the city at a cost of $10,000 per month. The river was above flood stage for nearly 90 days in 2019. This year, Tweet said the city has applied for federal flood relief so the city can buy its own pumps to have onsite when the river rises. This type of response, Tweet said, was once needed only every few years. Now, he said, “it’s pretty much every year, and sometimes multiple times per year.”
As spring rains arrive amid the coronavirus crisis, towns prep for flooding: ‘Last year was really scary. You never know what the river is going to do.’
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