FLOOD PROTECTION
OUR OPINION: Drain anti-diversion amendments from water bill 
House Majority Leader Al Carlson chose the wrong project to undercut.
By Tom Dennis for the Herald , March 02, 2013
Souris River flood protection plan price tag put at $820 million
Engineers have released their 1,500-page proposal to protect areas from Burlington through Minot to Velva, N.D., and also Mouse River Park in Renville County. It would cost $154 million to acquire property for levees, flood walls and other structures, and $565 million to build them. The rest of the cost is engineering and management expenses.
By Associated Press , March 01, 2012
Burleigh County plans $30 million in flood projection projects
The projects are in response to Missouri River flooding last year that prompted an emergency response, damaged hundreds of homes in the county and created property access problems.
By Associated Press , February 27, 2012
Crookston’s flood protection project in ‘home stretch’
This could be the year that flood protection projects are completed in Crookston. The 100-year flood protection of Jerome’s Addition is scheduled to be finished this year, its second year of work. Jerome’s is the city’s last major residential area to receive U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-certified protection, following the Woods, Sampson’s and Chase-Loring additions.
By Ryan Bakken , February 18, 2012
Roland Young, Grand Forks, letter: Flood control’s secret weapon is 'retention'
wetland preservation, restoration and/or development can be accomplished through very effective, environmentally friendly and federally approved projects.
And North Dakota has developed only a small fraction of the potential sites.
By Roland Young , February 04, 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
Minot City Council approves Souris River flood protection plan
The Minot City Council has approved a flood protection plan for the Souris River that last year swamped more than 4,000 homes and businesses and forced thousands of people to evacuate.
By Associated Press , February 01, 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
Carolyn Moore, Minot, letter: Minot dike, greenway threaten neighborhood
Those of us in the valley already have weathered one flood. I ask the engineers tasked with crafting Minot’s flood control plan to spare us from facing another, far more devastating “flood” of green space and earthen dikes.
By Carolyn Moore , October 15, 2011
OUR OPINION: Key change could speed construction of dikes
The bad news is that the federal deficit means cost cutting in Washington is the order of the day. The good news is that good ideas are surfacing to streamline the process so that vital flood protection work in North Dakota and elsewhere can progress.
By Tom Dennis for the Herald , September 06, 2011
Diversion’s price tag worries Fargo officials
The city of Fargo faces jarring sticker shock as it finds itself trying to fight flooding while paying its share of a diversion channel that would provide permanent protection.
By Patrick Springer , August 11, 2011
Area leaders: Minot flood is lesson for Fargo-Moorhead area
State and local officials say the devastation caused by flooding in Minot shows why it's important to fund permanent flood protection in the Fargo and Moorhead area.
By Associated Press , August 10, 2011
Fargo mayor: City to seek extension to infrastructure sales tax for interim flood protection
Fargo Mayor Dennis Walaker said today that city leaders next year will ask Fargo taxpayers to extend a half-cent infrastructure sales tax to help pay for $200 million in interim flood control measures to protect the city to a Red River level of 42½ to 43 feet. Those improvements, including buyouts of expensive homes in flood-prone areas, would be made over a period of about 10 years and would be a “bridge” to protect the city until a diversion could provide 500-year flood protection, or a flood of about 46 feet, Walaker said.
By Forum Communications , August 10, 2011
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The National Weather Service said a weak tornado in Waite Park, Minn., and a downburst packing high winds north of downtown St. Cloud caused most of the damage in the area Friday.
By Associated Press , July 04, 2011
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