Minnesota
Grants awarded for port projects around the state
The Minnesota Department of Transportation announced $5 million in grants last week for four projects that support freight movement on Minnesota's waterways.
The funding from the Port Development Assistance Program will help leverage local and private funding for a total construction program of $8 million.
• The Duluth Seaway Port Authority will receive $2.2 million for additional vessel mooring and storage area at the facility, to allow for dredging to full seaway depth and to stabilize existing failing timber and concrete dockage.
• The St. Paul Port Authority will receive $1.8 million to install a rail spur extension, rehab a connecting rail spur and pave a reinforced loading and unloading pad in the Southport Terminal.
• The Wabasha Port Authority will receive $454,876 for construction of a new barge terminal, which will include dredging of an existing access channel and placement of the dredge cut material on an adjacent barge terminal site to raise elevation to create a five-acre terminal pad and access road.
• The Winona Port Authority will receive $454,512 for a project to install new paved drives, retention ponds and reinforced concrete piping and inlets designed to redirect stormwater.
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Red River Valley
Threat of spring floods 'very low' along Red River
The threat of spring floods along the Red River in eastern North Dakota and western Minnesota is "very low," says a forecast released last week by the National Weather Service.
