Quad Cities River Reaches 21.4 Foot Crest.
The Mississippi River flood of 2023 has crested in the Quad Cities, reaching 21.46 feet and expected to stay at that level for several more days. Davenport built HESCO walls along River Drive to hold back the floodwater and protect the city, with three times the amount of sand added along the riverfront and the wall twice as high and wide as the one built during the 2019 record-setting flood. The entire Riverfront Recreation Trail and Walk are closed due to major river flooding.
