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FREE NO Fargo Dam Sticker! Something special for Halloween! Send a message to Fargo, Cass County, the Diversion Authority and Corps of Engineers to get rid of the dam(s), stop the destruction of upstream communities, impacts on Kindred and Richland-Colfax school districts and farming operations for Fargo’s unnecessary future development of the last natural flood […]
Continue ReadingAs tropical storm Sandy (downgraded from hurricane) bears down on the eastern United States, one has to feel compassion for the millions of Americans over several states that have to endure tidal storm surges, wind driven rain and snow in excess of 80 mph and flooding from heavy rains. This is mother nature at her […]
Continue ReadingThere is no reason for the communities of Bakke, Hickson and Oxbow, ND to cower behind an earthen ring dike when the removal of the 3 dam components would resolve the problems.
Continue ReadingRichland and Wilkin Joint Powers Authority say NO to Fargo’s economic “dead zone” in what was, prior to this project, a vibrant, rural economic growth area.
Continue ReadingCommissioner Vanyo, chairman of the FM Diversion Authority, is driving hard to eliminate 25 percent of the Kindred School’s tax base – permanently.
Continue ReadingIt appears that the current plan would have the metro area solve their problems at the expense of their neighbors both up stream and downstream. Why implement a plan that only causes more problems in other areas?
Continue ReadingI have a “Stop the Fargo Dam” sticker on the back of my car. The other night I was loading my vehicle, when a couple of 30-somethings walked by discussing my sticker. The first commented he hadn’t heard of a Fargo dam. The second said there really wasn’t a dam, it was just confusion over the diversion project.
Continue ReadingFargo’s greatest threat is not the Richland Wilkin JPA. It’s Fargo and Cass County leaders, the Diversion Authority and the Corps driving future development, into a natural flood plain buffer, for an elite group of land developers.
Continue ReadingDennis Walalker: If we don’t get federal aid for the diversion, it won’t happen.
Continue ReadingND Gov. Jack Dalrymple: “…the corps of engineers needs to re-apply themselves to the problem, find what the objections are and need to find technical solutions to those problems…”
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