Flood-weary looking at 'Big Ditch’
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - Fri Nov 27, 7:49 pm ETPeople in Fargo and Moorhead have a $962 million plan for easing flooding from the Red River of the North: Just dig another river.
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People in Fargo and Moorhead have a $962 million plan for easing flooding from the Red River of the North: Just dig another river.
Cass County commissioners are supporting a diversion project on the North Dakota side of the Red River for flood protection. The commissioners voted unanimously to support the idea Monday.
The flood of 2009 differed from the 1997 flood in many ways. Almost the entire state received some sort of flood damage this spring, while the 1997 flood was contained in the Red River Valley. And the overland flooding in 2009 hit areas nowhere near the flood plain.