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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?
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The FMDA talking heads recite their script about FEMA Flood Insurance costing thousands per year without the FMDA project, yet the average price in Fargo, ND – $618.14 as of November 30, 2020. The most insane part is Fargo and Cass county encouraging growth into areas flooded in 2009.
Continue ReadingWake up and smell the coffee. Moorhead has awesome flood protection for less than what the FMDA has pumped into Oxbow, ND boondoggle and the member only Country Club.
Continue ReadingContinued from: Part 1 – Exposing the FMDA and USACE Part 2 – Exposing the FMDA and USACE Part 3 – Exposing the FMDA and USACE Part 4 – Exposing the FMDA and USACE Part 5 – Exposing the FMDA and USACE If Fargo-Moorhead were a house with a leaky roof and Fargo had 100 […]
Continue ReadingThe Fargo Dam and FM Diversion project has been built on fraud and deceit, as evidenced by the county-wide sales tax vote, the promised Bakke vote, EOE, DPAC, etc.
Continue ReadingHow can homes that were surrounded by flood waters in 1997 and 2009 be considered new impacts if project alignment is moved north?
Continue ReadingWhy would properties above the 100 year flood threshold NEED certifiable 100 year flood protection?
Continue ReadingThe danger of losing objectivity is that a pragmatic solution for Fargo’s contrived flood levels becomes harder to reach, largely because the goal is financially unrealistic.
Continue ReadingWhat happens when taxpayers get to pay sales tax and tax assessments for local and federal share for the dam, diversion and then flood insurance?
Continue ReadingRather ignominious to bellyache that people need a flood so that Pawluk and his ilk can pompously deliver a “WE TOLD YOU SO”, when they’ve had SIX LONG YEARS to complete internal flood protection and help those 20,000 property owners avoid FEMA flood insurance,
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