Three Iowa highways closed due to flooding

AMES, Iowa – March 18, 2010 – 4 p.m. – The Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) is currently reporting three road closures.

●    U.S. 59 is closed on the south side of Cherokee due to flooding from the Little Sioux River. Traffic is being rerouted using Iowa 3, Cherokee County Road C-43 and Linden Street. 

●    U.S. 169 is closed between U.S. 6 and Iowa 44 in the Adel area. Traffic is being rerouted using Dallas County roads F-60, P-58 and Iowa 44.

●    NEW: Iowa 31 is closed at mile marker 19.8 approximately two miles south of Correctionville due to flooding from the Little Sioux River. Traffic is being rerouted using Woodbury County roads L-36 and D-38.

Potential closure

●    U.S. 30 west of Boone is expected to be closed at some point late this week or early next week due to flooding from the Des Moines River.

Individual, sporadic road closures can be found at http://iowadotmedia.typepad.com/. Anyone interested in receiving updated road closure information can subscribe to receive this information via E-mail, Twitter or RSS feed.

Closure information is also available on www.511ia.org. (Click on the high bandwidth site.)

More information on flood safety can be found on the Iowa DOT’s Web site at http://www.iowadot.gov/floods/index.html.

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