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River Levels Falling

WVIK, Quad Cities NPR | By Herb Trix
Published April 29, 2022 at 11:45 AM CDT
the Mississippi River in the QC on Friday April 29
National Weather Service
the Mississippi River in the QC on Friday April 29

After cresting one foot below flood stage earlier this week, the Mississippi River has been falling slowly in the Quad Cities. It's dropped almost a foot and-a-half since Tuesday, and is expected to drop another foot through next week.

At Lock and Dam 11 in Dubuque, the river is now four feet below flood stage, and also forecast to fall about one foot through next week.

The Mississippi is two feet below flood stage and falling, at Muscatine. At Burlington the river crested Thursday half a foot over flood stage, and since then it's dropped slightly, and should continue to fall.

The Rock River is also falling - Friday it's two feet below flood stage at Moline, and three below flood stage at Joslin.
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Herb Trix
A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois. While a graduate student in the Public Affairs Reporting Program at the University of Illinois at Springfield (then known as Sangamon State University), he got his first taste of public radio, covering Illinois state government for WUIS. Here in the Quad Cities, Herb worked for WHBF Radio before coming to WVIK in 1987. Herb also produces the weekly public affairs feature Midwest Week – covering the news behind the news by interviewing reporters about the stories they cover.
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