Flood Insurance Rates = Flood Risk
The solution is to reduce the risk for all, not just for the FM metro region. The current crop of leaders have not the foresight to choose this long-term solution.
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It would cost less to pay the insurance than build the diversion.
Karl Abrahamson, Fargo, wrote a poignant letter to the editor that appeared in the Fargo Forum and here at FMDam.org. Karl Abrahamson, Fargo “If the 5,000 properties being included in the new Fargo flood plain were forced to pay the $2,500 annual premium for flood insurance, it would take 240 years to spend as much […]
Continue ReadingEarly Chatter: “Isaac” Greatest Threat “Heavy Rains”
Watching The Weather Channel intently as “Isaac” heads toward New Orleans within days of Hurricane Katrina’s anniversary prods considerable thought. $14.5 billion additional dollars spent to update aging flood mitigation that at its inception was “designed” to provide adequate prevention from storm surge, swells and tidal flooding. Curiously, a similar concern to the Fargo Moorhead […]
Continue ReadingMessage is: “find a way to get a favorable cost benefit ratio”
It is unfortunate that taxpayer money was not spent to protect the city that exists…, and not the one that is outlined in Fargo’s Tier 2 (50 year) growth plan.
Continue ReadingNational Home Builders Association Publishes Evidence to Conspiracy and Lobbying Congress to remove “residual risk” language from the flood insurance bill
National Home Builders Association Publishes Evidence of Conspiracy and Lobbying Congress to remove “residual risk” language from the flood insurance bill. “Working with a bipartisan group of senators the NAHB (National Association of Home Builders) was also successful in removing (residual risk) language from the flood insurance bill, which would have required the mandatory purchase of flood […]
Continue ReadingDefending Richland and Wilkin counties June 7th, 2012
The lack of a reasonable plan for farmland impacts of a proposed diversion is troubling to say the least. Crop insurance will not cover a manmade disaster. If losses are caused by a dam and reservoir, no payments will be made.
Continue ReadingWill the Fargo Moorhead Dam and FM Diversion save $19 million in flood insurance premiums?
NO! The Fargo Moorhead Dam and FM Diversion WILL NOT remove $19 million in flood insurance premiums for Fargo or the Metro area. FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) creates flood risk maps that lending institutions may use to interpret flood risk on any given property description. Properties are assigned a “risk zone” which is used […]
Continue ReadingDiverting the Truth: Diversion Authority Propaganda Machine
Talk 101.9 FM reported that Dennis Walaker had a set down to meet with the editorial board of the Fargo Forum. (The same paper that Dennis Walaker inferred he could dictate front page content and name diversion opponents) Since that time several articles have been published in support of the Diversion: • First there […]
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