The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers posted Tuesday a copy of its draft Feasibility Report and Environmental Impact Statement, or EIS, on the Internet for the proposed Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Area Flood Risk Management project.
The Corps prepared the draft EIS, which describes the potential significant environmental impacts of the proposed project. Hard copies of the report will also be provided to the public libraries in Fargo, Moorhead, West Fargo, N.D., and Halstad, Minn.
A public review and comment period on the draft EIS will begin June 11 and end July 11. Official comments may be submitted electronically via the International Water Institute website at www.internationalwaterinstitute.org/
feasibility or mailed to: Mr. Aaron Snyder, Corps of Engineers planner and project manager, 190 E. 5th St., Suite 401, St. Paul MN 55101-1638.
The proposed project is a 35,000 cubic feet per second diversion channel in North Dakota. It would be a 36-mile-long diversion channel that would start approximately four miles south of the confluence of the Red and Wild Rice rivers and would re-enter the Red River north of the confluence of the Red and Sheyenne rivers.
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Control structures would be constructed on the Red and Wild Rice rivers at the south end of the project.
Meanwhile, the Corps will host a community meeting to discuss downstream impacts of the proposed channel, along with ongoing efforts to minimize and mitigate flood impacts.
The meeting will be in Hendrum, Minn., at 6 p.m., June 16, in Norman County West Elementary School. An open house begins at 6 p.m., with a formal presentation by Corps staff at 7 p.m.
