DAVENPORT, IOWA (May 30, 2019) — The next meeting of the Quad Cities Flood Resiliency Alliance will be held on May 30, 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 flood-plain management. The agenda for the May 30 meeting includes a discussion of ongoing flood-management and damage-assessment; Lou Ann Patellaro from Insurance Services Organization will present information on the National Flood Insurance Program’s Community Rating System (CRS); and the US Army Corps of Engineers will present training on flood-fighting and levee-inspection.
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 flood-plain restoration. Quarterly meetings followed in November 2018 and February 2019 with additional meetings scheduled for August and November 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 75 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 flood-plain 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 flood-plain 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 are 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; flood-plain managers; public-works personnel; local and state-level elected officials; and residents and property owners in the region.
WHERE: Riverdale City Hall Community Room, 110 Manor Drive, Riverdale, Iowa
WHEN: 1:30PM Thursday, May 30, 2019
ADMISSION: Free
CONTACT: Carol Downey, River Action Program Manager, at 563-322-2969 orcdowney@riveraction.org
