Recently local debate has ensued over plans to build a flood wall around the airport.
Even some cities protected by flood walls are having trouble.
They have a flood wall although it does mean you can't see the river so well.
Plans to build a flood wall around the site were made but abandoned, it is thought, due the cost.
They followed a path up the side of the flood wall and went down to the docks.
Completed in 2006, the flood wall protects the community from future flooding.
Flooding, however, is often a problem in Davenport due to the lack of a flood wall.
In all three acres of land will be added to the river side of the flood wall.
The project will also create a permanent flood wall and terrace around the building.
Whether to build a flood wall is a question that has lingered here.