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Cultural Affairs Department seeks flood information

The Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs is asking Iowans involved with flood-damaged cultural, history and arts resources to fill out a short online survey to help determine how much additional assistance is needed in Iowa.

The survey is available on DCA's web site here.

The deadline for responses is July 29. Results will be compiled and forwarded to the Rebuild Iowa Commission the following day.

"We have been receiving reports about the physical damage done to Iowa's cultural assets and properties," DCA Director Cyndi Pederson says in a news release.

"This online survey is the next step we're taking to assess the financial damage and to track filings with FEMA and the Small Business Administration, and to ask Iowans what other kinds of assistance they need as we recover and rebuild Iowa. We will report our findings to the Rebuild Iowa Commission and federal officials, among others."

Iowans involved with cultural, history and arts-related organizations, assets and properties—including but not limited to art galleries, art museums, performing arts centers, artist's studios, historic buildings, cemeteries, archaeological sites, artifacts, museum collections and archives—are encouraged to fill out the 12-question survey.

Technical and financial resources information about a wide variety of flood recovery and preservation issues is available here.