Black Hawk County There were 2,960 flood parcels
Major roadways flooded
hindering access to and from flooded
areas
Volunteers help avert levee
failure near the Western Home in Cedar Falls,
Iowa
Removed 7,500 tons of Flood Debris ($1.2 million) in Cedar Falls
Congressman Bruce Braley in the EOC
Role of the Long Term Recovery Committee
• To strengthen area-wide disaster coordination in Black Hawk County by sharing information, simplify resident access, and jointly resolving cases with unmet needs.
• Working with faith based organization to develop damage assessment teams
• Raises fund to help those with unmet needs• Organize volunteers to help with clean up
• Property Acquisition reduces future flooding
impact.
• Over the past 20 years more then five hundred properties have be removed from the flood plane in Black Hawk County
• Five years later in Cedar Falls alone, a total of $68 million has been invested in flood recovery
• Mitigation Planning is on going
Cedar River Watershed Coalition