It also moves a dozen or so homes out of the floodplain each year, and requires new homes built there to be elevated.
A more placid Mississippi at the Interstate Highway 74 bridge connecting Davenport with Illinois.
Critics say that floodwalls and levees could prevent the flooding altogether. But officials say dikes upstream from the city already act like a sluice, causing the river to flow even faster, deeper, and more dangerously through their town.
If they built levees, Davenporters say, smaller communities below would have to do the same - and so on, all the way down the river.
No thank you. So Davenport takes its floods in stride and lets the mighty river do what rivers do from time to time.
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