Daily News Editorial Cites Abuse of Power by Fargo and Corps of Engineers
Dennis Walalker: If we don’t get federal aid for the diversion, it won’t happen.
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National Home Builders Association Publishes Evidence to Conspiracy and Lobbying Congress to remove “residual risk” language from the flood insurance bill
National Home Builders Association Publishes Evidence of Conspiracy and Lobbying Congress to remove “residual risk” language from the flood insurance bill. “Working with a bipartisan group of senators the NAHB (National Association of Home Builders) was also successful in removing (residual risk) language from the flood insurance bill, which would have required the mandatory purchase of flood […]
Continue ReadingHas the Diversion Authority even “read” the FEIS?
Does the Diversion Authority know what residual deficiencies and costs are in the Fargo Moorhead Dam and FM Diversion? The Fargo Forum recently voiced the concerns of the Diversion Authority of a provision in the project they had already agreed to. What is a meandering channel doing in the bottom of a diversion channel designed […]
Continue ReadingTemporary or Permanent Impacts
Again and again we hear the FM Diversion/Dam must do this or that to store water “temporarily” south of the diversion channel in times of high floods. Aaron Snyder will not mention that the permanent effects of the project are “– buying out and relocating between 800 and 1200 structures upstream, between 200-400 are house […]
Continue ReadingFMDam Salutes Veterans That Served In Peace Time and War
As I sit by a campfire remembering my relatives that have served, some as POW’s who escaped and were presumed dead, I reflect on the sacrifices they made that made “today”…possible. After reading an email response from Craig O. Evans (Chief, Plan Formulation Section US Army Corps of Engineers St. Paul District) words in […]
Continue ReadingCan the USACE be trusted?
Can the USACE (United States Army Corps of Engineers) be trusted with designing and building one of their most complex dam and diversion systems in North Dakota, when much easier projects have landed the Corps in court for negligence over the past few years.
Continue ReadingDiversion Authority Leave Property Owners Twisting in the Wind: “Taking” WITHOUT “Just Compensation”
Finally, the Fargo/Moorhead Diversion Authority has admitted that the private property of upstream citizens has been “taken or damaged for public use” as a result of the diversion project. A “taking” occurs when a government action impairs or damages the private property of a citizen. In this situation a “taking” has occurred because the proposed […]
Continue ReadingBusinesses Describe Economic Impact of Flooding
The Fargo Forum, Sanford Health President and CEO Dennis Millirons, Microsoft’s site leader Don Morton and BCBS President and CEO Paul Von Ebers receive FMDam.org’s FIRST ever combined “Leaky Bucket – Story Doesn’t Hold Water Award” for Kristin Daum’s April 22nd, 2012 “Businesses Describe Economic Impact of Flooding” article. When a story clearly doesn’t doesn’t hold […]
Continue ReadingDiverting the Truth: Diversion Authority Propaganda Machine
Talk 101.9 FM reported that Dennis Walaker had a set down to meet with the editorial board of the Fargo Forum. (The same paper that Dennis Walaker inferred he could dictate front page content and name diversion opponents) Since that time several articles have been published in support of the Diversion: • First there […]
Continue ReadingSubmit a Tip About Government Waste
In three short years, the Fargo Moorhead Dam and FM Diversion nearly doubled in cost from $900 million to $2.04 billion. The USACE intentionally compartmentalizes projects to keep concerned taxpayers out of sync with the process to remain unfettered and unaccountable. Fargo, ND and Moorhead, MN along with Cass and Clay counties are placing impracticality […]
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