Iowa City Officials Expect Estimated Flood Damage Totals Soon: Iowa City Daily News Links, June 20

Onward to the weekend. Charge!

On to the Links!

Erin Jordan of the Gazette writes that Iowa City is expecting estimated flood damage totals by next week. 

After much controversy, the Iowa City Council finally approved its Johnson County SEATS contract on Tuesday. (the Gazette)

Mitchell Schmidt of the Press-Citizen writes that work is almost done on rebuilding a bridge over Ralston Creek on Rochester Avenue. 

Little Village has a preview of Iowa City events this weekend.

Aly Brown of the Press-Citizen writes about the First Avenue railroad project slated to start in 2014.

The United Way is now looking for volunteers to help remove sandbags put up in advance of the flooding, much of which thankfully never came. (Press-Citizen)

The documentarian who tracked the Iowa Caucus this last go around will show his documentary in Iowa, eventually. (Des Moines Register)

Daily Links Excerpt of the Day

One of the oldest bridges in Iowa City, Rochester Avenue Bridge was much overdue for replacement, said Melissa Clow, special projects administrator with Iowa City’s engineering division.

A 2010 study of the bridge detailed cracked pavement on the deck and severe corrosion, Clow said.

“Other than that, it’s too narrow for the traffic volume that uses it,” she said.

The $930,000 project — 80 percent of which will be reimbursed to the city through the federal Highway Bridge Program — will replace the existing two-lane structure with a widened bridge to match the existing street width with sidewalks on the north and south sides of the bridge.