It’s the Flood Plain
Minnesota statute says, “the proposed project must represent the minimal impact solution to a specific need with respect to all other reasonable alternatives.”
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Part 6: Exposing Fargo Moorhead (FMDA) and the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
Continued 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 ReadingPart 5: Exposing Fargo Moorhead (FMDA) and the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
WRRDA 2014 was so stuffed full of pet projects that of the 514 votes cast between the house and senate, only 11 dissented. It’s not like the entire U.S. Congress took a hard look at the FMDA project and considered it worthy.
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Part 4: Exposing Fargo Moorhead (FMDA) and the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
“How in the world did this get this far?” ~ With incompetent leadership selling a development project disguised as flood control.
Continue ReadingPart 3: Exposing Fargo Moorhead (FMDA) and the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
Imperial Fargo and elite developers would not accept permanent internal flood protection for the city that existed. It didn’t fit their land grab agenda, they got greedy…, they wanted more. Even if MORE, meant placing the existing city in harms way and property owners in the cross-hairs of mandatory FEMA flood insurance.
Continue ReadingPart 2: Exposing Fargo Moorhead (FMDA) and the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
So many imbeciles, drenched with arrogance, playing a high stakes games to place Fargo at greater risk – for an unnecessary project, unjust profit and congressional funding that may never come.
Continue ReadingPart 1: Exposing Fargo Moorhead (FMDA) and the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
Is this an unscrupulous attempt by the FMDA to raise the 100 year base flood elevation to conceal the actual impacts of the proposed project to cheat property owners and reduce the amount of financial mitigation to be paid to areas outside the project footprint?
Continue ReadingWDAY Meteorologist Alludes To Fargo’s Real Flood Problem
If the pro-diversion ilk truly believes that distributed retention doesn’t work, then remove all dams upstream of Fargo and increase the sizing of all culverts to prevent any water from being held back and let the water decide where it should be.
Continue ReadingFEMA Flood Insurance, Fargo, Cass and the USACE
How can homes that were surrounded by flood waters in 1997 and 2009 be considered new impacts if project alignment is moved north?
Continue Reading2016 Fargo, ND Flood Forecast
Responsible civic leaders and officials would have restricted development in the area pictured. But instead, the irresponsible talking heads built mutli million dollar schools to drive development where flood water poses the greatest risk.
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