DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Officials say Davenport’s public works department has spent more than $1 million on fighting floods this spring and that figure is expected to rise as the city prepares to hold back future deluges. A provisional flood barricade holding back the Mississippi River ruptured on April 30, sending floodwaters into downtown Davenport. The Quad-City Times reports that Davenport Public Works Director Nicole Gleason says the future outlays are tough to project. She noted that the flooding costs put pressure on a department which already has a limited number of workers with numerous other obligations to manage.

The expenditures for cleanup and recovery efforts factors in facility-related costs, money for signs, labor for public works crews, resources such as sandbags and the price of using equipment.
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Information from: Quad-City Times, http://www.qctimes.com