American Coot
American Crow
American Flamingo*
American Goldfinch
American Kestrel
American Robin
American Tree Sparrow
American White Pelican
Bald Eagle
Baltimore Oriole
Barn Swallow
Barnacle Goose*
Belted Kingfisher
Black-and-White Warbler
Black-Capped Chickadee
Black-Headed Gull*
Black Vulture*
Blue Jay
Blue Tit*
Blue-Winged Teal
Bobwhite
Broad-Winged Hawk
Brown Creeper
Brown-Headed Cowbird
Brown Thrasher
Bufflehead
Canada Goose
Canvasback
Cape May Warbler*
Carolina Chickadee*
Carolina Wren
Cedar Waxwing
Chipping Sparrow
Common Gallinule
Common Goldeneye
Common Grackle
Common Gull*
Common Moorhen*
Common Pochard*
Common Redpoll
Cooper's Hawk
Dark-Eyed Junco
Dicksissel
Double-Crested Cormorant
Downy Woodpecker
Eastern Bluebird
Eastern Goldfinch - See American Goldfinch
Eastern Kingbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Towhee
Eastern Wood Pewee
Eurasian Blackbird*
Eurasian Collared Dove
Eurasian Coot*
Eurasian Jackdaw*
Eurasian Magpie*
European Serin*
European Starling
Fox Sparrow
Golden-Crowned Kinglet
Gray Catbird
Graylag Goose
Great Black-backed Gull*
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Great Spotted Woodpecker*
Greater Flamingo*
Greater White-Fronted Goose*
Hairy Woodpecker
Harlequin Duck
Hermit Thrush
Herring Gull
Hooded Crow*
Horned Lark
House Finch
House Sparrow
House Wren
Indigo Bunting
Killdeer
Laughing Gull*
Lesser Black-backed Gull*
Lesser Scaup
Lincoln's Sparrow
Magnolia Warbler
Mallard (Domestic)
Mallard (Wild)
Mourning Dove
Mute Swan*
Neotropic Cormorant*
Northern Cardinal
Northern Flicker
Northern Rough-Winged Swallow
Northern Shoveler
Orange-Crowned Warbler
Palm Warbler
Red-Bellied Woodpecker
Red-Breasted Nuthatch
Red-Headed Woodpecker
Red-Legged Thrush*
Red-Tailed Hawk
Red-Winged Blackbird
Ring-Billed Gull
Ring-Necked Duck
Rock Pigeon
Rook*
Ross's Goose*
Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
Ruddy Turnstone*
Scarlet Tanager
Smooth-Billed Ani*
Solitary Sandpiper
Song Sparrow
Spotted Sandpiper
Swamp Sparrow
Tricolored Heron*
Tufted Duck*
Tufted Titmouse
Tundra Swan*
Turkey Vulture
White-Breasted Nuthatch
White-Cheeked Pintail*
White-Crowned Pigeon*
White-Crowned Sparrow
White-Eyed Vireo
White-Throated Sparrow
White-Winged Dove
Wild Turkey
Wilson's Warbler
Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker
Yellow-Rumped Warbler
Ants (Formicidae)
Bee Flies (Bombyliidae)
Blow Flies (Calliphoridae)
Brown Lacewings (Hemerobiidae)
Bumble Bees, etc. (Apidae)
Carrion Beetles (Silphidae)
Cellar Spiders (Pholcidae)
Centipedes, House (Scutigeridae)
Cicadas (Cicadidae)
Common Sawflies (Tenthredinidae)
Crane Flies (Tipulidae)
Emeralds (Corduliidae)
Fireflies (Lampyridae)
Flower Flies - See Syrphid Flies
Funnel-Web Spiders (Agelenidae)
Honey Bees - See Bumble Bees, etc.
Hornets - See Yellowjackets, etc.
Hover Flies - See Syrphid Flies
Ichneumon Wasps (Ichneumonidae)
Jumping Spiders (Salticidae)
Katydids (Tettigoniidae)
Ladybird Beetles (Coccinellidae)
Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae)
Leaffooted Bugs (Coreidae)
Leafhoppers (Cicadellidae)
Lightning Bugs - See Fireflies
Longhorned Beetles (Cerambycidae)
Mantid Flies (Mantispidae)
Mantids (Mantidae)
Minettia Flies (Minettia)
Narrow-Winged Damselflies (Coenagrionidae)
New York Weevils (Ithyceridae)
Orb-Weavers (Araneidae)
Paper Wasps - See Yellowjackets, etc.
Picture-Winged Flies (Ulidiidae)
Plant Bugs (Miridae)
Robber Flies (Asilidae)
Scarab Beetles (Scarabaeidae)
Scentless Plant Bugs (Rhopalidae)
Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae)
Signal Flies (Platystomatidae)
Soldier Beetles (Cantharidae)
Soldier Flies (Stratiomyidae)
Spittlebugs (Cercopidae)
Stink Bugs (Pentatomidae)
Swallowtails (Papilionidae)
Sweat Bees (Halictidae)
Syrphid Flies (Syrphidae)
Tiger Moths (Arctiidae)
Tiphiid Wasps (Tiphiidae)
Yellowjackets, etc. (Vespidae)
Here is a recent update on the company’s future on the riverfront I wrote for the Quad-City Times last month:
Tory Brecht | Posted: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 9:15 pm |
Frustration with River Gulf Grain’s lack of visible progress moving off the Davenport riverfront resulted in some friction Wednesday between the company’s attorney and members of the Levee Improvement Commission.
Last month, the commission’s development director Steve Ahrens wrote a letter aimed at getting the company moving and asking them to provide a progress report at its May 13 meeting.
Curtis Beason, a Lane & Waterman attorney who represents River Gulf Grain, delivered some good news and bad news to commissioners at the meeting. The company will cease operations at its River Drive facility by the Nov. 30 lease expiration deadline, Beason reported.
However, the company doesn’t agree that language in the lease agreement calls for the site to be cleaned, free of debris and planted with grass in exposed dirt areas by that date, Beason said. Rather, he said, the company expects to work through Nov. 30 and then partner with the Levee Commission in cleanup efforts.
That didn’t sit well with commissioners, who were already expressing regrets about granting the company another two-year extension on its lease in 2007.
“I don’t see any way we see this as allowing them to begin cleaning at the end of the lease,” said commissioner Lucky Lang, as he read through the 2007 lease extension agreement. “Termination is Nov. 30. They must return the property in the condition required at that time.”
Section 16.1 of the lease states: “Upon termination of this lease, lessee agrees to return the premises to lessor in such condition as is required by the lease set forth above, ordinary wear and tear excepted. Lessee shall remove at the end of the lease term all improvements on the leasehold to grade, including storage bins and buildings. Lessee agrees to plant grass seed on all areas of exposed dirt.”
Ahrens said that certain milestones River Gulf failed to reach as part of the agreement also clearly indicate the intent of the company was to relocate and leave the property clear and cleaned prior to Nov. 30.
Those include having primary equipment installed on the company’s new site on or before June 30, 2009 and that “the lessee will commence operations at the (new) site on or before Aug. 31, 2009.”
Missing milestones has already led to financial penalties, as stipulated in the agreement. The monthly rent has gone from $5,832 in August 2007 to $6,751 currently for the property on East River Drive.
Mary Dubert, a commissioner who voted for the last lease extension who has said she will not consider further extensions, said the expectations of the commission are clear: the site must be cleaned and seeded by Nov. 30.
The commission asked Beason to attend the next Levee Improvement Commission meeting scheduled for June 10 with a work schedule.
In the meantime, commissioners asked Ahrens to meet with city legal staff and to draft another letter to River Gulf, notifying it of the commission’s expectations and possible legal remedies if they are not met.
June 4th, 2009 at 10:47 amExcellent article, Tory. I had missed that article originally, but am happy to see that, at the very least, they will be leaving the site this year. Any thoughts on what will take its place?
June 4th, 2009 at 11:32 am