nd fargo flood control 110609
On the homepage
Food
Out There
Reusse's Turkey
NewsBreak
Fargo-area group narrows flood control options
Print this story
E-mail this story
Save to del.icio.us
Share on Facebook
Share on Digg
Follow local news on TwitterMore from Local + Metro
FARGO, N.D. - A group looking at flood control options for the Fargo area is narrowing its list.
The Metro Flood Study Work Group decided Thursday to eliminate the option that would include a series permanent levees and home buyouts, and focus instead on a Red River diversion plan.
Members of the group say they would prefer the diversion on the North Dakota side of the river. The Army Corps of Engineers has said a diversion on the Minnesota side would be less expensive.
The project must meet the corps' cost-benefit threshold to get federal support.
Corps project manager Aaron Snyder says the agency will continue to study a North Dakota diversion plan. Area officials are to present their preferred choice to the corps by Dec. 1.
Recent Local + Metro stories
Twins statues commemorate 50 years, new ballpark - November 6, 2009
Twins statues commemorate 50 years, new ballpark - Want to put your arm around Joe Mauer or Harmon Killebrew? More
- Cash-back offers trick consumers
- Pawlenty's lawyer defends cuts to nutrition program
- Effort builds to repeal nuclear power ban
- Legislators take a field trip to the Metrodome
- Library is pressed to take gang force report off Web
- Quam exits firm to help husband run for governor
- Backed by House, 6 patients sue Pawlenty, state officials
- Minn./Wis. reciprocity: Will workers be torn between two tax bills?
- Minn. GOP biggest user of tax break Pawlenty axed
- Not all forgiven
  Get A ProfessionalFind home maintenance, car repair, legal advice, cleaning, and more in the Yellow Pages. Go now! |
Win tickets to Doomtree at First Avenue, and maybe a Doomtree grand-prize pack that includes its album, t-shirt and signed poster.Vita.mn presents Doomtree Blowout V at First Avenue on Dec. 5. |
Comment on this story | Be the first to comment | Hide reader comments