Morning update: Mississippi crest coming late tonight

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By Rick Rector | Tuesday, April 29, 2008 |

The band shell in Davenport's LeClaire Park is surrounded by the Mississippi River. (Jeff Cook/Quad-City Times) Buy this Photo

Good Tuesday morning, Quad-Cities. At 6 a.m. it’s 31 degrees under fair skies. Did you cover your plants last night? You should have as there is frost to scrape off car windows this morning. The National Weather Service says there will continue to be areas of frost before 9 a.m. before giving way to mostly sunny skies and a high of 52 degrees. Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low around 38 degrees.

The Mississippi River currently is cresting upstream in Camanche, Iowa, and Fulton, Ill., and should crest this afternoon in LeClaire, Iowa. In the Quad-Cities, a crest of 19.3 feet is expected late tonight. Check out the flooding on the skybridge Web cam.

Several roads and low-lying areas along the Quad-City riverfront are closed because of flooding, including River Drive in Davenport and Moline. Also in Moline, North Shore and South Shore drives around the Rock River are closed because of high water.

If you travel Valley Drive in Bettendorf you’ll see a detour for a road project that begins this week. Valley Drive will be closed to traffic between Belmont Road and Park Avenue, but the two intersections will remain open. Traffic will be detoured to Middle Road using Belmont, Crow Creek and Moencks roads. The road is expected to reopen June 27.

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Flooding rivers

The Mississippi River in the Quad-Cities sits at 19 feet this morning. The National Weather Service is forecasting a crest of 19.3 feet for late tonight.

Here’s a look at other area river levels …

-- Mississippi River at Muscatine, Iowa: 20.49 feet / flood stage is 16 feet

-- Wapsipinicon River at DeWitt, Iowa: 12.85 feet / flood stage is 11 feet

-- Rock River at Moline: 12.64 feet / flood stage is 12 feet

-- Iowa River at Columbus Junction, Iowa: 22.5 feet / flood stage is 19 feet

-- Iowa River at Wapello, Iowa: 24.26 feet / flood stage is 20 feet

-- Cedar River near Conesville, Iowa: 14.82 feet / flood stage is 13 feet

Road closures

Spring weather brings with it area road closures for the Quad-Cities. Currently, there are more than 20 projects affecting city and/or county roads in the region. Check the list before you head out this morning.

See news happening? Contact us

Stuck in traffic? See an accident or fire on your way to work? Drop us an e-mail at newsroom@qctimes.com or give us a call at (563) 383-2235 if you see breaking news such as house fires, traffic accidents and road conditions, street closures/detours and water main breaks in the Quad-City region.

Plot a pothole

Had your teeth rattled by a car-eating pothole? First, call the city where the pothole is located. Here are the phone numbers: Davenport: 326-7923; Bettendorf: 344-4088; Moline: 797-0425; Rock Island: 732-2200; East Moline: 752-1573. Second, go online CLICK HERE and add it to our pothole map. Find out where the worst potholes are in the Quad-Cities.