PR Poppycock from Pawluk
Is it the remainder of Cass County, State of North Dakota or United States taxpayers fault that Fargo methodically develops a flood prone flood plain?
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Wanton Speculations of Darrell Vanyo
Excerpt from Feb 15th Fargo Forum article: “Oxbow to get ring levee for protection” Vanyo said Biewer is not an elected official but has become a sort of spokesman for Bakke, which is an unincorporated subdivision. Biewer’s survey signals there are a lot of people remaining silent “because they just don’t want to stir the […]
Continue ReadingDefending Richland and Wilkin counties February 7th, 2013
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: “Impacts outside the areas Fargo decided to compensate, designated as the “staging area,” will be evaluated on a “taking” basis. This is just code for “we’re not going to pay for any impacts until/unless you sue us and prove we caused it.”
Continue ReadingDefending Richland and Wilkin counties January 31st, 2013
Cass County Commissioner and Diversion Authority Chair Daryl Vanyo: “you wouldn’t have anything out here if it wasn’t for Fargo.”
Continue ReadingEmpty Promises from the Diversion Authority
What good is a promise to build a ring dike when the Diversion Authority fully intends to stick the victims with the price tag?
Continue ReadingDefending Richland and Wilkin counties January 10th, 2013
Like the “bridge to nowhere,” Fargo’s unnecessary overpriced dam/diversion plan is a massive “redistribution of wealth” for the benefit of private development interests.
Continue ReadingSpecial Kind of Stupid
It takes a special kind of stupid to buy into another empty promise issued by Fargo, Cass County, the Diversion Authority and the Corps of Engineers.
Continue ReadingDefending Richland and Wilkin counties January 3rd, 2013
Diversion Authority Chair and Cass County Commissioner Darrell Vanyo said, “To give the Kindred School District (the) monies may establish a precedent for the future reduction through the whole process of building the diversion”. In other words, they don’t want to pay the real cost of the diversion, and they won’t if they can help it.
Continue ReadingDefending Richland and Wilkin counties December 12th, 2012
The Corps of Engineers has rejected any use of distributed retention as part of the project and instead has mandated its own dam and reservoir. In fact, the dam and reservoir component causes harm to farmers and residents of southern Clay and northern Wilkin counties.
Continue ReadingDefending Richland and Wilkin counties December 6th, 2012
In private meetings, Diversion Authority officers say they have tried to stop development but are not able to do so. Fargo’s insistence on developing natural flood plain is the problem. Building permits have been issued for natural flood plain areas as if it were a priority.
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