Manitoba: $1 billion needed to shore up flood protection on Assiniboine
A report commissioned by Manitoba warns flood protection in the province has dozens of significant weaknesses and needs $1 billion in spending.
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Manitoba flood forecasters move into new facility
As the season of flood concern draws closer, forecasters responsible for watching water levels in Manitoba are starting this season in a new office with state-of-the-art equipment. It’s an improvement brought forward based on lessons learned in 2011.
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Save the Valley: A Minot Flood Protection Game
In the spirit of starting the discussion on the City of Minot’s Phase II National Disaster Resiliency Competition application, here’s another idea that might make Minot a bit more disaster resilient. Part of being a flood resilient community is understanding the dynamic forces that funnel water through our town. There is a big river basin
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Idea for Minot: Let Us Never Forget 2011
The City of Minot is close to wrapping up its Phase II National Disaster Resilience Competition application. The goal: show contest judges Minot has a solid action plan to make our community more resilient to the impacts of flooding. There will be public meetings and the opportunity for you to comment on the application in
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Almost 8 inches of Rain Floods Parts of Sioux Falls
Everyone who has lived on the prairie longer than a season understands how volatile the weather is — we are a place of extremes. Sioux Falls recently got a reminder that should also serve to spur the urgency behind Minot’s flood protection plan. We’ve dodged bullets like this a few times since the flood of
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What Can Minot Learn From 1000 years of Dutch Flood Management?
It’s a hard question to answer, but we won’t know unless we ask. This article wasn’t written specifically for Minot, but it does point out how successful the Dutch have been at holding back the North Sea. And in that, perhaps there are lessons we can use. This article was originally published on The Environmental
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Rebuilding New Orleans into America’s finest water city
Ten years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, engineers, urban designers, landscape architects and city planners are reimagining the city to create sustainable growth in jobs and investment. It’s a story the resonates in Minot as we tackle the same issues.
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As work continues toward seeing construction begin on Minot’s flood protection plan in 2017, there are a few properties that will need to be acquired. KMOT News introduces you to a story we’ll be covering in more detail on The Minot Voice.
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Rural Flood Protection Signing up Participants
Outside of Minot in the rural areas, flood protection for property owners is being addressed on a case by case basis with options including relocation and ring dikes. To this point, the program has interest from 100 of 165 eligible properties.
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One Man’s Opinion: We Can & Must Do Better on Flood Control
At a recent meeting sponsored by the Corps of Engineers regarding flood control, the attendees were advised it would probably be over 20 years before the Souris River flood control project is completed. Several credible local persons involved with the project conceded to me off the record, that it could be longer and possibly never.
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It’s been four years since Fargo had a cost estimate on what was originally billed as $1.78 billion flood protection project. Simple inflation has moved that number closer to $2 billion, but other construction avenues are being explored that could expedite the process and reduce costs.
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Citizen activism is key to New Orleans’ revival and future
Want a picture of what it took for New Orleans to get from flood-ravaged city to largely rebuilt with significant flood protection in 10 years? It took a citizen initiative on a scale rarely seen in modern post-apathetic America. Read this commentary.
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A Decade after Katrina, are America’s Flood Estimates Dangerously Wrong?
Since 1992, the town of Hannibal Missouri has had two 200-year floods, two 50-year floods, and in seven of the last eight years, a 10-year flood. The takeaway: the system we’re using to assess flood risk is broken and floods are getting worse. Read the full story on Politico here.
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Existing flood control dikes in and around Minot need repairs, and until we get that done, finding federal help from the Corps of Engineers may prove to be difficult. That was the message delivered to Ward County Commissioners Tuesday. Source: KX News: Dikes Need Repairs to Assure Corps Help
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Confidence and security are the ultimate economic development tools, and in New Orleans, faith in flood protection has been the key ingredient to building both. The New Orleans flood protection project is now 10 years old and Reuters has the story.
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Editorial: On Flood Protection, We Should Expect More From Our Elected Leaders
The temperature in the Perkett gym at Tuesday’s flood protection design open house was hot — literally. Figuratively, the atmosphere hung with anger, apathy, and desperation. If you caught the Minot Voice coverage yesterday, you got the matter-of-fact version of the night. The engineering teams that are moving our long-term flood protection forward needed to
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