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Businesses Describe Economic Impact of Flooding

April 24, 2012March 3, 2013Editorial TeamLeave a Comment

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 […]

Diversion’s Engineering Depends on the Nature of Flood Threat

April 3, 2012April 6, 2012Editorial TeamLeave a Comment

Rodger Olsen and Kevin Campbell, who serve on the public outreach committee of the Flood Diversion Authority, submitted a joint letter to the Fargo Forum. The back peddling being done by diversion officials over the 500 year vs 100 year flood levels is rather entertaining. Early on, the USACE offered up viable solutions to address […]

Diversion PR Machine Counts Chickens Before They Hatch

March 31, 2012March 31, 2012Marcus Larson1 Comment

The only pivotal step in the process is whether or not congress can fund the $2.04+ billion project, at a taxpayer cost of over $40,998 per structure in the metro area. How will history record their actions? Defenders of property rights or sell-outs to greed?

Crack in the FM Diversion: Will it Break Under Pressure

January 31, 2012January 20, 2013Marcus LarsonLeave a Comment

Take any single aspect of the Fargo Moorhead Dam and Diversion, scrutinize the data and the findings don’t pan out. When one considers the lack of a real 500 year flood threat versus the impacts and benefit to cost ratios the entire document that the proposed Fargo Moorhead Dam and Diversion is being based upon, […]