DEVILS LAKE FLOOD
Sept. 13 date of Devils Lake Solutions Water Tour 
Co-sponsored by the Devils Lake Basin Joint Water Resource Board and the North Dakota Water Education Foundation, this will be the first fall tour through the basin, which has been experiencing an 18-year-long flood.
By Kevin Bonham , August 26, 2011
Another Devils Lake outlet pump has problems
The Devils Lake outlet is experiencing more pump problems.
By Associated Press , August 22, 2011
Cory Christofferson, Hamar, N.D., letter: Outlet decisions result from poor planning
Now that Gov. Jack Dalrymple’s minions have strolled into Minco Township with their bags of cash and convinced the locals that a 5-mile pipeline across the township at a cost of $80 million to $100 million is a wonderful idea, it’s full speed ahead.
By Cory Christofferson , August 18, 2011
City of Devils Lake gets added state money for levee
North Dakota's Water Commission is paying another $10.5 million to build up a levee that protects the city of Devils Lake against the lake's rising waters.
By Associated Press , August 17, 2011
DEVILS LAKE FLOODING: Plan still holds (removes) water
Gravity outlet, proposed in 1999, still makes sense, Devils Lake officials sayCity officials in Devils Lake are dusting off an old plan they believe could provide significant relief from chronic flooding without threatening people and property downstream.
By Kevin Bonham , August 06, 2011
Dalrymple to meet with Valley City officials to discuss DL outlets
Gov. Jack Dalrymple plans to meet with Valley City officials to discuss what the state's plans to build new outlets from the flooded Devils Lake Basin.
By Kevin Bonham , August 02, 2011
Richard Betting, Valley City, N.D., letter: Tolna Coulee project will exacerbate flooding
By Richard Betting , August 02, 2011
OUR OPINION: Civility important in water debates
In this extraordinary summer, it seems just about everybody around here is a water crank.
By Mike Jacobs for the Herald , August 02, 2011
Pump problem has Devils Lake outlet running at below capacity
State Water Commission project manager Bruce Engelhardt tells KZZY radio that crews are figuring out what exactly is wrong.
By Associated Press , August 02, 2011
George Cox, Devils Lake, letter: Devils Lake needs a ‘gravity flow’ solution
What if Minot’s flood didn’t go away? What if next year’s spring and summer floods simply added to the water that had stayed in Minot? What if the same thing had happened in Grand Forks in 1997 (and 1998, 1999 and so on)?
That’s what the Devils Lake region is going through.
By George Cox , July 30, 2011
DEVILS LAKE FLOODING: More than water on the rise
Residents voice disapproval of Tolna control structureMammoth Devils Lake might have peaked for 2011 a month ago at a record 1,454.4 feet above sea level, but frustration levels hit new highs Wednesday evening as people in the Devils Lake protested a planned Tolna Coulee control structure they say will do nothing to help relieve the 18-year-old flood.
By Kevin Bonham , July 28, 2011
Proposed Tolna Coulee water control structure meetings set
If the flooding Devils Lake keeps rising it eventually will overflow through the coulee and into the Sheyenne River. Officials want a control structure to regulate the flow and reduce flooding worries downstream.
By Associated Press , July 22, 2011
Michael Connor, Starkweather, N.D., letter: Armoring Devils Lake outlet dooms acreage
Has the Corps addressed the “taking” of land that will be involved in the armoring of the Tolna Coulee, as outlined in the Tiger Report?
By Michael Connor , July 22, 2011
DEVILS LAKE FLOODING: Moving away from the water
Flood stress convince Devils Lake couple to sell house againWhen Glenn and Donna Lannoye were forced to move their house from the flooded Eagle Bend Estates on Devils Lake’s Creel Bay in 1997, they bought the highest lot available — a rural subdivision called The Cliffs, so-named because it was an overlook, almost 30 feet above and a quarter-mile away from the lake.
By Kevin Bonham , July 21, 2011
DEVILS LAKE FLOODING: Third outlet to become reality
North Dakota will move forward with building an open-channel gravity-flow outlet from Devils Lake, most likely from Stump Lake. “The third outlet will happen, and it shouldn’t take too terribly long to narrow it down to one site,” Gov. Jack Dalrymple said. “This is something that the water commission determined is a needed tool to continue to manage Devils Lake.”
By Kevin Bonham , July 18, 2011
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