As the official in charge of the city's water and wastewater treatment plants ... have cast Cedar Rapids into the Third World overnight." The damage figures were staggering: The flood swamped ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Work has begun on updating and modernizing the plant that treats the wastewater from the Cedar Rapids metro area. The project at the Water Pollution Control plant, at 7525 Bertram ...

Editor's note: This story was published June 13, 2008, near the height of Iowa's battles with overwhelming floods that year. Cedar Rapids ... at the city's water treatment plant to 25 percent ...

CEDAR RAPIDS ... 2008 flood by loading the bridges with train cars filled with rocks as the flood crest approached. Flood water subsequently toppled the rail bridge near the Penford Products plant ...

That's 10 feet above flood stage, but lower than earlier predictions and well below the 31.12-foot crest that caused widespread flooding in 2008. Cedar Rapids erected nine miles of temporary ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG ... when there’s another high-water event. “All we had was Interstate 380. Highway 100 wouldn’t have been open in the 2008 flood and we’re working on plans ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KWWL) -- City leaders in Cedar Rapids broke ground on a new wastewater treatment facility ... result in cleaner water, leaving this plant and will return natural gas to the ...

On June 13, 2008 downtown Cedar Rapids was ... Miraculously no one died during the flood. Since the flood, the City of Cedar Rapids has been working to protect the town to the 31.12" level with ...

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