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River Levels Falling

National Weather Service

Both the Rock and Mississippi Rivers have crested in the Quad Cities, and started to fall. 

The National Weather Service says the Mississippi reached 9/10 of a foot over flood stage around midday Tuesday in the Quad Cities, and has since dropped half a foot. It should drop below flood stage by tonight.

On the Rock River at Moline, it's 3.2 feet over flood stage now, after cresting overnight 3.4 feet over flood stage, and it could fall to flood stage by next Wednesday.  

Upstream at Joslin, the river level is falling - it crested Tuesday morning at 6.3 feet over flood stage, and has since dropped half a foot to 5.7 feet over flood stage. It's expected to fall to the flood stage level late next week. 
 

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.