DAVENPORT, IOWA (February 19, 2019) — The next meeting of the Quad Cities Flood Resiliency Alliance will be held on February 28, 2019 at 1:30PM in the City Hall Community Room in Riverdale, Iowa. The Alliance is open to the public and is a forum for timely and educational information on flood prevention, mitigation, flood insurance and floodplain management. The agenda for the February 28 meeting includes a spring flood outlook from the National Weather Service and an educational session on floodplain management presented by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
At River Action’s October 2018 Upper Mississippi River Conference, a workshop launched a new initiative for the greater Quad City region within the Mississippi River watershed. The Quad Cities Flood Resiliency Alliance kicked off with many local river cities, towns and villages showing a keen interest in flood prevention, flood damage mitigation, and floodplain restoration. The first meeting followed in November 2018, and quarterly meetings are scheduled for 2019.
The Quad Cities alliance includes parts of Scott, Clinton, Muscatine, and Louisa counties in Iowa, and Rock Island, Whiteside, Mercer, and Henry counties in Illinois. It provides a forum for river stakeholders to share information, resources, flood prevention, or mitigation policies, and to get to know river neighbors for assistance before, during, or after flood events.
About thirty communities comprise the alliance footprint, but only three are enrolled in the National Flood Insurance Program’s Community Rating System. The CRS encourages a wide variety of creditable activities that communities can undertake as they continually strive to improve their ratings. The base rating begins at 10, and a variety of activities take the rating toward the best rating of 1, which earns the largest flood insurance discounts. The activities themselves provide benefits to the community in reduced or avoided flood damage, quicker recovery, and stricter floodplain regulations to continue these benefits into the future. Moline, Davenport, and Rock Island County are rated eight, eight, and seven, respectively and currently earn modest discounts on flood insurance premiums.
Goals of the alliance include educating communities on the CRS program and assisting with application and enrollment, training certified floodplain managers to eventually have one in each community, and establishing pre-disaster communications and relationships between communities to enable sharing of resources and assistance around flood events.
Meetings will be held quarterly. Admission is free and open to the public. For more information, contact River Action at 563-322-2969.
WHAT: Quad Cities Flood Resiliency Alliance Meeting
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: City/county/village leaders and administrators; emergency management personnel; floodplain managers; public works personnel; local and state-level elected officials; residents and property owners in the region.
WHERE: City Hall Community Room, 110 Manor Drive, Riverdale, Iowa
WHEN: 1:30PM Thursday, February 28, 2019
ADMISSION: Free