Ames Flood Mitigation Study News Today

Ames Tribune Iowa State professor Janette Thompson said she had a visceral reaction upon seeing a riverside forest destroyed along Ioway Creek.  "I drove over the bridge and I just thought I was gonna lose my breakfast," Thompson said. "It was like a gut punch." The city felled trees along the Ioway Creek, near the Duff Avenue bridge in Ames, this spring as part of a $4.9 million flood mitigation project 10 years in the making. While the city plans to create wetlands in the area, Iowa Stat...

Ames Tribune Correction: This article has been updated due to an error. The citys flood mitigation study target the Squaw Creek and the Skunk River. Jim Howe has operated Howe Welding next to Squaw Creek for 33 years, experiencing eight floods during that time — though he has reservations about the $4.9 million flood mitigation project that could take part of his land.  Squaw Creek and Skunk River have a long history of major flooding in Ames, and after the impacts of the 2010 floods,...