| From: | Kristy Olsgaard |
| Date: | March 11, 2019 at 10:43:02 AM CDT |
| To: | jay.leitch@ndsu.edu, pfjestad@prtel.com, marktanderson3@gmail.com,vanambur@cord.edu, lf1871@rtelnet.net |
| Subject: | Thanks for supporting the contested hearing of the DNR permit approval of Diversion Authority’s Plan B proposal |
| Cc: | balbright@brrwd.org |
Dear BRRWD Managers:
Please be aware of the appreciation of the BRRWD board voting to join the contested hearing on the DNR’s approval of the DA’s Plan B. We, living and/or working in the shadow of the F-M Diversion’s Plan, thank you for your support.
As we understand the purpose of the Buffalo-Red River Watershed District, it is to benefit the inhabitants of the district. If this project affects even one farmstead, one farm family, or one acre of productive farmland, it should not be permitted by any Minnesota entity.
If the proposed project were only about flood protection, some consideration to their proposal might be warranted. But, if you look out into your audience at tonight’s meeting and see a large representation of realtors from Fargo-Moorhead, ask yourself why. Why would they bother if there wasn’t some development element to the project?
In the BRRWD Rules, Section 5. Flood Control and Drainage (read more…), it states:
“Every person shall use his land reasonably in disposing of surface water and may turn into a natural drainage-way all the surface water that would naturally drain there, but he may not burden a lower landowner with more water than is reasonable under the circumstances.”
So the question is, is it reasonable to ask people who have never experienced the flooding of a farmstead in over 100 years to be threatened by this extravagant development project. A project that is willing to put one group of people at risk in order to please another group of people who don’t even own land in Minnesota?
This is not only a question of ethics, but also conscious.
We humbly ask that each of you continue to support the contested hearing against this plan.
Thanks for your support and consideration ~
Kevin and Kristy Olsgaard
Views: 1647
I have always felt there should be an investigation on the DA on their spending. 1st I was told the DA was given 14 million to figure out what to do with the cemeteries affected by the diversion, was told the DA gave 10 million to Oxbow and 4 million hasn’t been answered for. 2nd the DA was buying up land by Horace when the the injunction was in place, so my question is how could they be doing this if everything was put on hold and they didn’t know where this thing was going. Just would like an answer to these ?s.
Moore and Houston have been building sysytems that makes the water get to the Red faster and faster for decades. If mother nature took three weeks, enter the educated idiots and it gets there in 3 days now. Maybe hours. Now they get to make millions for flooding more and or different people by moving the water around that they Rushed to the Red. And we keep hiring them to do it. Who are the real idiots here?