Mississippi River Flood Plain Information, Rock Island County Illinois, prepared for the State of Illinois Division of Waterways, Department of Public Works and Buildings, June 1969

(1969) Mississippi River Flood Plain Information, Rock Island County Illinois, prepared for the State of Illinois Division of Waterways, Department of Public Works and Buildings, June 1969. Natural Resources, Department of

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Abstract

This report evaluates the flood situation along the Mississippi River in Rock Island County, Illinois and Scott and Muscatine Counties, Iowa. The study includes the flood plain area of Mad Creek and Geneva Creek in Muscatine, Iowa, from the mouth to a point just upstream from the H.J. Heinz plant on the right bank of Mad Creek. The report was prepared at the request of the Bistate Metropolitan Planning Commission and several Iowa communities and counties through the Illinois Division of Waterways and the Iowa Natural Resources Council to aid in the solution of local flood problems and to determine the best use of land subject to overflow. The report covers an area of the Mississippi River flood plain from the Rock Island County line near Albany, Illinois, down stream to the mouth of Michael Creek in Louisa County, Iowa. The study area begins and ends at Miles 512 and 441, respectively, upstream f rom the mouth of the Ohio River. The study reach extends south into Louisa County, Iowa to include all of the Muscatine Island Levee District and the Muscatine-Louisa-County Drainage District No. 13. The report covers two significant phases of the Mississippi River flood problem in the study reach. First, it reviews the records of the largest known past floods on the Mississippi River. Second, the report estimates possible future floods; the Intermediate Regional and Standard Project Floods.