Rainfall in eastern Minnesota has flooded a construction site along the Mississippi River in northeast Iowa. The construction of a new bridge that will connect Highway 9 in Iowa and Highway 82 in Lansing is now delayed by at least a week.
The rainfall mixed with wetter conditions in eastern Minnesota have led to rising waters along the Mississippi River.
Clayton Burke, the project manager of the new Lansing bridge, said the construction site sits at a lower elevation and once the river rises to a normal level, flooding will happen.
“The water comes up to a normal level in the spring, part of the site goes underwater,” Burke said. “That is challenging in this stage of construction, because the contractors working on some of the deep foundations support the new bridge. So, those efforts are all going underwater right now.”
