Iowa Fact Book, 2002

Facts about Iowa's work force, education, government, etc.

Iowa Fact Book, 2003

Facts about Iowa's work force, education, government, etc.

An Illustrated Guide for Monitoring and Protecting Bridge Waterways Against Scour - Project TR-515 - Final Report, March 2006

This report is a well illustrated and practical Guide intended to aid engineers and engineering technicians in monitoring, maintaining, and protecting bridge waterways so as to mitigate or prevent scour from adversely affecting the structural performance of bridge abutments, piers, and approach road embankments. Described and illustrated here are the scour processes affecting the stability of these components of bridge waterways. Also described and illustrated are methods for monitoring waterways, and the various methods for repairing scour damage and protecting bridge waterways against scour. The Guide focuses on smaller bridges, especially those in Iowa. Scour processes at small bridges are complicated by the close proximity of abutments, piers, and waterway banks, such that scour processes interact in ways difficult to predict and for which reliable design relationships do not exist. Additionally, blockage by woody debris or by ice, along with changes in approach channel alignment, can have greater effects on pier and abutment scour for smaller bridges. These considerations tend to cause greater reliance on monitoring for smaller bridges. The Guide is intended to augment and support, as a source of information, existing procedures for monitoring bridge waterways. It also may prompt some adjustments of existing forms and reports used for bridge monitoring. In accord with increasing emphasis on effective management of public facilities like bridges, the Guide ventures to include an example report format for quantitative risk assessment applied to bridge waterways. Quantitative risk assessment is useful when many bridges have to be evaluated for scour risk and damage, and priorities need to be determined for repair and protection work. Such risk assessment aids comparison of bridges at risk. It is expected that bridge inspectors will implement the Guide as a concise, handy reference available back at the office. The Guide also likely may be implemented as an educational primer for new inspectors who have yet to become acquainted with waterway scour. Additionally, the Guide may be implemented as a part of process to check whether existing bridge-inspection forms or reports adequately encompass bridge-waterway scour.

Iowa Women's Hall of Fame Book, 2007

Biographies of Iowa Women's Hall of Fame 1975-2007 inductees by the Iowa Commission on the Status of Women.

Iowa Women's Hall of Fame Book

Biographies of Iowa Women's Hall of Fame 1975-2006 inductees.

State Fair 2008 Coloring Book, 2008

The Secretary of the State Office produced a coloring book all any or all children that go to the State Fair of Iowa.

Abduction Prevention Coloring Book

Coloring book for the prevention of abduction made by Division of Criminal Investigation

Hand book for Iowa Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, 1898.

A narrative of the history of the Soldiers' and Sailor's Monument on the State Capitol grounds.

Iowa Budget Book Fiscal Year 2011.

Our FY 2011 General Fund budget is balanced, fiscally conservative, and does not raise sales or income taxes. We have already proposed and signed three balanced state budgets and have demonstrated the leadership to ensure that the current year (FY 2010) budget is balanced in the face of dramatic and quick declines in state revenues last year that occurred as a result of the national recession.

The 2001 Iowa Health Fact Book.

State-wide data relating to health outcomes, social determinants of health, health behaviors, and health care resources are presented, generally at the county level. The data have been compiled in this book, but were collected using different methodologies by various organizations and reporting mechanisms.

The 2003 Iowa Health Fact Book.

State-wide data relating to health outcomes, social determinants of health, health behaviors, and health care resources are presented, generally at the county level. The data have been compiled in this book, but were collected using different methodologies by various organizations and reporting mechanisms.

The 2005 Iowa Health Fact Book.

State-wide data relating to health outcomes, social determinants of health, health behaviors, and health care resources are presented, generally at the county level. The data have been compiled in this book, but were collected using different methodologies by various organizations and reporting mechanisms.

The 2007 Iowa Health Fact Book.

State-wide data relating to health outcomes, social determinants of health, health behaviors, and health care resources are presented, generally at the county level. The data have been compiled in this book, but were collected using different methodologies by various organizations and reporting mechanisms.

The 2009 Iowa Health Fact Book.

State-wide data relating to health outcomes, social determinants of health, health behaviors, and health care resources are presented, generally at the county level. The data have been compiled in this book, but were collected using different methodologies by various organizations and reporting mechanisms.

The 2011 Iowa Health Fact Book.

State-wide data relating to health outcomes, social determinants of health, health behaviors, and health care resources are presented, generally at the county level. The data have been compiled in this book, but were collected using different methodologies by various organizations and reporting mechanisms.