MNDak Makes “dent” at Big Iron

Pat Otto, Karen Grimm, Gene Grimm, Joel Noreen, Sid Berg, Allen Swenson, John Carlson and Marcus Larson volunteered to represent MNDak Upstream Coalition and the Richland Wilkin JPA during Big Iron September 11th thru 13th. The booth offered straight forward information, insights and impacts of the Fargo Moorhead Dam and FM Diversion. A real “eye […]

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On the Wild Rice, a Plea for a Culture

Grand Forks Herald reporter, Chuck Haga explores negative impacts caused by Fargo’s bad policy of “flood thy neighbor.” 112th Congress may have to weigh the economic and social impacts caused by Fargo’s intrusion into the natural floodplain in violation of Executive Order 11988. “Fargo feels they’re in control and they can do as they please,” Fargo should use the floodplain just to the city’s south for water storage at times of flooding, “instead of draining it to build houses.” “If we’re going to take their water, we need to have some say. As it is, Richland County is to be a holding pond for Fargo, and we don’t think that’s fair.”

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