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North 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.
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Fargo 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?
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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.
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Fargo 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 ReadingFor Piepkorn to admit he’s not that bright is one thing, but to be “tone deaf”, obsessively myopic and willing to distort the matter is another. Honestly, there are only 1 or 2 of the Fargo commissioners worthy of their station and the rest have devolved into the equivalent of squishy dog-doo to the unsuspecting bare foot.
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2020 was predicted to be a Top 5 flood, yet is turning into a Top 5 dud!
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Fargo Diversion Authority increased contracts by $ 179,033,359.25 from January 1, 2019 to January 31, 2020. Still, NO congressional funding, now topping 38 percent of the original projected cost. The Fargo Diversion Authority has pumped over $133.6 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.
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The next five months will be the most expensive stage of our legal fight. Expert witnesses, essential to pierce the false narratives being pushed by Fargo, have been retained to testify. These witnesses are necessary to show Fargo rejected better, cost effective flood protection plans in order to promote commercial development of the flood plains north and south of the FM Metro.
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