CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - City officials gathered outside of the National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library Monday morning for a ribbon-cutting ceremony commemorating the completion of a flood control project.

The Czech Village flood control project consists of a storm water pump station, detention basin, concrete floodwall from 12th to 16th Avenue SW and a flood gate across 16th Avenue SW. This southwest-area project is the latest completed step of the permanent flood control system set to cost between $1.1 - $1.3 billion with inflation, according to the City of Cedar Rapids .

The project will protect the area to the level of the 2008 flood, which reached heights of 31.12 feet. The city-wide flood control system is projected to be completed in 2035, according to the city’s public

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