Mike Clarke, the former Davenport public works director who first brought HESCO barriers to the city as a way of fighting floods, said Wednesday he believes the barriers would have held if they had ...

IOWA CITY - Removal of the temporary floodwall at the University of Iowa's Art Building West has begun, and work to deconstruct the miles of HESCO barriers erected as flood protection around campus is ...

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BURLINGTON, Iowa-- Parts of downtown Burlington are getting back to business as some HESCO barriers start to come down. It's been two weeks since the temporary barrier was breached, flooding parts of ...

Installation of HESCO barriers intended to protect hundreds of Mendenhall Valley homes from glacial outburst floods began Monday on Killewich Drive, with the first phase of the semipermanent levee ...

The Juneau Assembly on Monday night approved spending up to $2 million to install Hesco barriers along a stretch of the Mendenhall River as a semi-permanent levee to protect homes from flooding of ...

After more than ninety days, the HESCO barriers in Downtown Davenport are finally coming down. And River Drive is slowly being opened to the public. The City of Davenport has started removing the ...

MCGREGOR, Iowa (KCRG) - Crews are continuing to prepare for the crest of the Mississippi River across Iowa, which includes cities like McGregor. The city of McGregor is asking people in South McGregor ...