AMES, Iowa – April 3, 2019 – While there was some good news last night with the opening of a segment of I-680 helping with the flow of traffic between Omaha and Council Bluffs, the public should expect that many Southwest Iowa roads will remain closed for weeks and in some cases, months due to severe flood damage.

The Iowa Department of Transportation is working diligently to assess damage, repair roads, and get them reopened as quickly as possible. Working with the Federal Highway Administration, local transportation partners, and the Nebraska and Missouri departments of transportation, our goal is to keep people moving as safely as possible through the area.

For those roads that remain closed, barriers continue to block access. Those barriers will remain in place until the road has been deemed safe for traffic.

A link to a detailed map of the initial damage assessments is available at: https://floods2019.iowa.gov/IADOT_2019FloodMap.pdf.

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