The City of Davenport has been awarded a $13.1 million federal grant to help the city fight and recover from river flooding in the future.
The funding will support projects in the city’s Mississippi River Flood Resiliency Plan, including road raises, street repairs and traffic safety improvements. When completed, the projects will establish a permanent flood detour route for large-scale flood events, ensure access to the Centennial and Arsenal bridges during periods of major flooding, and improve transportation safety at the River Drive intersections at Third and Fourth streets.
The grant funding is coming through the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformation, Efficient, Cost-savings Transportation (PROTECT) Grant Program. This new program provides funding to ensure surface transportation resilience to natural hazards, including climate change, sea level rise, flooding and extreme weather events.
“I’d like to thank FHWA as well as other federal, state and local partners who supported this application,” Davenport Mayor Mike Matson said in a news release announcing the grant. “In addition, I would like to thank the staff for their work in continuing to pursue and write these grants on behalf of the City of Davenport. The community identified better flood mitigation efforts as a key goal, which resulted in the Flood Resiliency Plan.”
