Quick Take Eminent Domain ND Supreme Court Vacates Cass County Diversion Case
North Dakota Supreme Court orders Cass County to vacate Quick Take Eminent Domain case intended to “evade” evade ND law protecting landowners.
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North Dakota Supreme Court orders Cass County to vacate Quick Take Eminent Domain case intended to “evade” evade ND law protecting landowners.
Continue ReadingNorth Dakota Century Code: (CCJWRD) A district may not include or utilize any reference to quick take eminent domain during negotiations to acquire the necessary easement for a right of way. Not only did land agent Lisa Kilde direct the Sauvageau’s to the quick take timeline in her letter and offer to purchase of February 1, 2021, she repeated the direction in every email she sent.
Continue ReadingFargo Diversion Authority increased contracts by $ 64,641,868.10 from February 29, 2020 to February 28, 2021 Still, NO congressional funding, Still, NO congressional funding, now topping 40 percent of the original projected cost. The Fargo Diversion Authority has pumped over $133.5 million into OHB ring-dike-levee and private country club ($32.05 million), which provides ZERO FLOOD PROTECTION BENEFIT TO FARGO, all courtesy of state and local taxpayers. With unfinished internal flood protection projects the Fargo Diversion Authority continues to pump millions into the non-flood prone OHB ring-dike-levee and private Oxbow Country Club, courtesy of state and local taxpayers.
Continue ReadingThere is no doubt that landowners can successfully fight and prevail against the CCJWRD’s willingness to trample on the well established property rights of landowners being injured by CCJWRD’s unrelenting misuse of government power to do the bidding of the Fargo Flood Diversion Project.
Continue ReadingLevees 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?
Continue ReadingThe 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 ReadingFargo, ND: FMDA facing new legal challenges from property owners over property rights, easements and acquisitions. The proposed easement unfairly protects the Cass County Joint Water Resource District by transferring all risk to [PROPERTY OWNER].
Continue ReadingFargo Diversion Authority increased contracts by $ 211,969,827.32 from January 31, 2019 to August 31, 2020. Still, NO congressional funding, now topping 40 percent of the original projected cost. The Fargo Diversion Authority has pumped over $132.3 million into OHB ring-dike-levee and private country club ($32.05 million), which provides ZERO FLOOD PROTECTION BENEFIT TO FARGO, all courtesy of state and local taxpayers. With unfinished internal flood protection projects the Fargo Diversion Authority continues to pump millions into the non-flood prone OHB ring-dike-levee and private Oxbow Country Club, courtesy of state and local taxpayers.
Continue ReadingFargo Diversion Authority increased contracts by $ 206,991,947.09 from January 31, 2019 to July 31, 2020. Still, NO congressional funding, now topping 40 percent of the original projected cost. The Fargo Diversion Authority has pumped over $132.3 million into OHB ring-dike-levee and private country club ($32.05 million), which provides ZERO FLOOD PROTECTION BENEFIT TO FARGO, all courtesy of state and local taxpayers. With unfinished internal flood protection projects the Fargo Diversion Authority continues to pump millions into the non-flood prone OHB ring-dike-levee and private Oxbow Country Club, courtesy of state and local taxpayers.
Continue ReadingBAD NEWS for Fargo, ND: Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) program could rescind FMDA funding.
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