DIVERSION
NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY NEWS Speaker to provide Washington-insider perspective on F-M diversion project
Ed Dickey, former acting Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, Washington, D.C., will share insights on federal water projects on Thursday, Oct. 28, at 11 a.m. in the Memorial Union Hidatsa...
Posted on 10/12/10 at 10:51 AM
THE WEST WING The Weekly Memo
You may or may not know that I provide a Weekly Memo, typically on Fridays, to the City Council. We have placed them on the City's main web site for about a month now. You can view them here, on the s...
Posted on 9/10/10 at 1:47 PM
U.S. Senate gives green light to flood control project 
The U.S. Senate has authorized the Fargo-Moorhead flood diversion, what proponents call a major milestone for the proposed $1.8 billion project.
By Erik Burgess , May 15, 2013
Diversion Authority recommends ring levee around three communities
Diversion leaders on Thursday took a big step toward removing homeowners in three upstream communities from what they called a “limbo state.”
By Erik Burgess , May 09, 2013
Charisma of competence: William Guy, N.D. governor 1961-73, dies at 93
William L. Guy, governor of North Dakota from 1961 to 1973 and a force behind the modernization of the state during that 12-year stretch, died at his West Fargo home this morning. He was 93.
By Chuck Haga , April 26, 2013
Senate compromises on diversion funding
The Fargo-Moorhead Area Diversion Project may not have to wait for complete federal funding to get started.
Senate lawmakers Wednesday reversed a decision that said state funding can be used only for levee and dike protection until the full federal share of the cost is appropriated by Congress.
By TJ Jerke , April 17, 2013
Obama’s budget snubs Fargo-Moorhead diversion
For the first time in four years, President Barack Obama’s annual budget proposal doesn’t provide funding for the Fargo-Moorhead diversion project, which the chairman of the Diversion Authority said may slow the project but won’t stop it.
By Mike Nowatzki , April 11, 2013
Don’t expect feds to rescue (or fund) diversion
Recent news reports on the Fargo diversion painted an overly rosy view of the project’s chances for funding.
By Leah Rogne , April 04, 2013
Trana Rogne, Kindred, letter: Don’t let diversion drown ND farm towns
Our family farms in Richland County, N.D. We support North Dakota House Bill 1020 and its amendments.
By Trana Rogne , April 02, 2013
TRANA ROGNE: Proponents’ stubbornness threatens diversion
Forum Communications cites the permanent flood protection provided by the Sheyenne Diversion as a factor contributing to the healthy growth of West Fargo, N.D. And that is probably the case. But not all diversions look alike.
By Trana Rogne , December 29, 2012
Perry Miller, Wahpeton, N.D., column: Corps tweaks data to get diversion funding
The Army Corps of Engineers has been engaging in some highly questionable analysis in its definition of the 100-year flood plain in Fargo-Moorhead. As a result, the Corps’ dam/diversion quickly is losing its claim to being a cost-effective project.
By Perry Miller , May 27, 2012
Trana Rogne, Kindred, N.D., column: Diversion displaces hundreds to secure F-M’s growth
Basically, Fargo-Moorhead leaders, the Flood Diversion Board of Authority and the Corps are asking the federal government to fund the growth of Fargo.
By Trana Rogne , May 05, 2012
LLOYD OMDAHL: ‘Give us liberty or give us dikes’
“We are tired of it and we won’t take it anymore.” Those are the sentiments of people in the city of Oxbow, N.D., south of Fargo, who feel they are getting a raw deal in the planning for new dikes in the Fargo-Moorhead area. If the preliminary plans prevail, they will be getting wet in the next high water.
By Lloyd Omdahl , April 15, 2012
Rodger Olson and Kevin Campbell, Fargo, letter: Diversion renders Fargo’s risk manageable
With the diversion project in place, the communities of Fargo and Moorhead would need only very minor emergency protection measures during a 100-year flood event.
By Rodger Olson and Kevin Campbell , April 01, 2012
Terry Guttormson, Hendrum, Minn., letter: Hypocrisy, thy name is ‘diversion supporters’
It would be a far wiser investment to build retention sites that enhance upstream and downstream properties rather than build something that will cause millions of dollars in damage because of the diversion.
By Terry Guttormson , February 03, 2012
Ray Grabanski, Kindred, N.D., letter: Diversion diverts billions in tax dollars
Shame on you, Fargo bureaucrats. You have no right to stick a bill on others for a pet pork project that will hurt more people than it helps.
By Ray Grabanski , January 03, 2012
Leah Rogne, Mankato, Minn., letter -- Corps to rural North Dakota: Drop dead
The squandering of good-hearted Fargo and Cass County taxpayers’ dollars on planning for the diversion is a gift that will keep on giving.
By Leah Rogne , December 24, 2011
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