USACE Warns ND Diversion is Risky and Rushed
Fargo City Commissioner Tim Mahoney said to get the project approved, and to have it affordable for taxpayers, it looks like a Minnesota diversion should be the local choice.
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North Dakota’s Most Expensive Taxpayer Subsidized Golf Course
Spineless politicians had a hand in the excesses at Oxbow, ND.
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 ReadingFargo’s Taxpayer Funded Cult
Prognosticate future weather conditions years, if not decades into the future. Yet, repeatedly miss short-term flood forecasts by several feet and ignore flaws in methods and flood prophecies.
Continue ReadingActs of Defiance and Failed Leadership
Willful act or complete incompetence? Instead of respecting FEMA guidance or conveying and insisting that letter content be observed by engineers, the Fargo Diversion Authority defies FEMA warnings regarding encroachment and placed the eastern reach of the new OHB levee directly into the “floodway and adjacent flood plain areas” to accommodate Oxbow golf course features, according Aarron Snyder, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Continue ReadingFargo Forum Insults MN Gov. Mark Dayton
Wouldn’t it be nice to have Dayton ask where all the displaced water goes? Or perhaps Gov. Dayton is wise enough to know that Minnesota has been relinquishing land to Fargo development – inch by inch for decades.
Continue Reading5 Years Ago Today, Keeping Fear Alive
Lack of spring 2014 flooding prompts the Fargo Forum to solicit readers into sharing stories and fears about 2009 flood memories in a shameless attempt to keep the Fargo Dam and FM Diversion project in limelight.
Continue ReadingLiving in Neverland, Fargo “Style”
When political leaders say “won’t” it usually means “will” and “never” is usually code for “guaranteed to”…
Continue ReadingFargo Flooding More Fabrication Than Flood
The only thin evidence that Fargo has to support the theory of “wet period” is the exceedance of the 18′ flood stage every year since 1993. Which had more to do with development encroachment and displacement from the natural flood plain, than any additional flood threats created by mother nature.
Continue ReadingFargo: Citadel Seeking Sympathy
The relationship between displacement of water and increased river crests are the most obvious fingerprints in North Dakotas crime of the century.
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