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Waterloo, IA - History
We would like to provide the residents of Waterloo a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Waterloo Home page. The Waterloo Home page provides as much information as possible on Waterloo. Knowing Waterloo’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Waterloo’s Home page, you will also find Waterloo’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Waterloo has a population of 115266. 49.6% of Waterloo’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.4 are female. 43.8% of Waterloo is married and 59.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $117,050, and the average rent is $776. Household median income in Waterloo is $46,942, and the individual median income is $27,887. Waterloo’s Ethnic is the following: White(73.5%), Black(17.4%), Hispanic(7.1%), Multiple(3.9%), Asian(2.3%), Other(1.9%), Native(0.5%), Pacific(0.5%).
June 2008 saw the worst flooding the Waterloo – Cedar Falls area had ever recorded; other major floods include the Great Flood of 1993. The flood control system constructed in the 1970s–90s largely functioned as designed. In areas not protected by the system, the Cedar River poured out of its banks and into parking lots, backyards and across the farmland surrounding the city.
Although much damage was done, the larger downstream city of Cedar Rapids was much harder hit. An area of the west side of the downtown and an area near the former Rath Packing facility were impacted, not directly by water coming from the river, but as a result of storm runoff draining toward the river but then being trapped on the back side of the flood levy system.
These areas did not have lift stations or alternate pumping capacity sufficient to force this water back to the river side of the control system. Areas where lift stations had been constructed (Virden Creek and East 7th Street) to pump this storm runoff into the swollen river remained largely dry (the east and north sides of downtown).
Several areas experienced water seeping into basements due to high water-table levels. Historical CrestsAccording to the National Weather Service, the ten highest crests of the Cedar River recorded at East 7th Street in downtown Waterloo: Crests reported in the 1960s and earlier were before completion of major flood control projects and therefore may not be directly comparable. In September 2016, flood watches and warnings were put into effect for Waterloo and its surrounding cities.
The crest was expected to just barely hit the height of the 2008 flood.
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