Fargo Moorhead Dam and FM Diversion

Did Oxbow, ND Just Get Thrown Under the Bus?

March 14, 2021March 17, 2021Marcus Larson1 Comment

Levees reduce risk, they do not eliminate it. How can any property owner within Oxbow, Hickson and Bakke feel confident they won’t face mandatory FEMA flood insurance requirements -or- suffer financial losses due to inadequate free-board in the future, as the slow wheels of certification sit and spin?

Lake Agassiz and the Red River Valley

August 17, 2013Admin22 Comments

The “immense sea” stayed two weeks, but at Georgetown, then set to the north of the present city, the Hudson’s bay Co. post itself escaped the water. It was built on a knoll. Other early settlers treated the danger of inundation the same as Hudson’s Bay did–they built around it.