Projects & Studies
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Benton County near St. Cloud, Minnesota
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Canisteo Mine Pit Flood Control Project, Itasca County, Minn.
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Chippewa River at Big Bend , Minnesota - Stream Bank Protection
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Crow River at Delano, Minnesota
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Devils Lake Basin, North Dakota
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Devils Lake Flood Risk Management Project
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Devils Lake Levee, North Dakota
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Devils Lake: Minnewaukan Flood Control Project, North Dakota
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Drayton Initial Assessment - Drayton, North Dakota
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Emergency Streambank Protection, Section 14, Brooklyn Center, Minn.
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Erosion along Highway 2, Red Lake River, Crookston, MN
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Fargo-Moorhead and Upstream Feasibility Study
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Flood Control: Downtown St. Paul Airport, St. Paul, Minnesota
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Flood Risk Management Continuing Authority, Red River of the North: Wahpeton, N.D.
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Flood Risk Management: Fargo-Moorhead Metro, North Dakota and Minnesota
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Flood Risk Management: Red Lake River, Crookston, Minnesota
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Flood Risk Management: Roseau River, Roseau, Minnesota
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Flood Risk Management: Twin Valley, Wild Rice River, Minnesota
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Hay Creek Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration - Roseau County, Minnesota
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Homme Dam and Reservoir Dam Safety, North Dakota
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Integrated Watershed Study: Minnesota River Basin in Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota and Iowa
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Kickapoo River Flood Damage Reduction, La Farge, Wisconsin
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Lac Qui Parle River, Dawson, Minnesota
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Marsh Creek near Mahnomen, Minnesota
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Minnesota River Flood Control Project : Montevideo, Minnesota
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Minnesota River Flood Control Project, at Granite Falls, Minnesota
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Mississippi Headwaters Reservoirs Project Sites
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Newport, Minnesota Flood Risk Management Project, Section 205
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Painter Creek Habitat Restoration, Minnehaha Creek, Minnesota
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Park River Flood Protection Project at Grafton, North Dakota
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Pembina River Flood Control Project: Neche, North Dakota
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Reconnaissance Study: Minnesota River Basin in MN, SD, IA and ND
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Red River of the North Basin: Basin-Wide Watershed Management Planning
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Red River of the North Basin: Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Manitoba, Reconnaissance Study
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Red River of the North Flood Control: Breckenridge, Minnesota
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Red River of the North at Grand Forks, North Dakota/East Grand Forks, Minnesota Flood Risk Management
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Ridgewood Addition, Fargo, North Dakota
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River Resource Values and Expectation
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Roads Serving As Water Barriers, Devils Lake Basin, North Dakota
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Sand Creek Flood Risk Management Project, Jordan, Minnesota
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Section 205 Flood Control Project, Borup, Minnesota
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Section 205 Flood Control Study: Mississippi River, Aitkin, Minnesota
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Sheyenne River Flood Control, West Fargo, North Dakota
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Sheyenne River, Baldhill Pool Raise, North Dakota
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South Fork Zumbro River Flood Control: Rochester, Minnesota
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South Washington Watershed District
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Stillwater Flood and Retaining Wall Project, St. Croix River, Stillwater, Minnesota
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Stream Bank Protection: Section 14, Pug Hole Lake, Minnesota
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Western Flood Control Sites - Minnesota: Lake Traverse, Orwell Lake, Hwy 75 - Bigstone, Lac qui Parle
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Western Flood Control Sites – North Dakota: Lake Ashtabula, Homme Lake Souris River
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White Rock Dam Safety, Wheaton, Minnesota
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Wild Rice River (MN) Feasibility Study
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Wild Rice and Marsh Rivers, Ada, Minnesota
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Red River of the North Basin: Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Manitoba, Reconnaissance Study
Location/Description
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The Red River of the North basin includes parts of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Manitoba. Tributary watersheds (see location map) cover 48,490 square miles, including the Devils Lake subbasin (at present hydrologi¬cally isolated). The Red River basin's tributaries typically have relatively steep upper reaches that spill into the very flat main stem valley floor located in the lakebed of former glacial Lake Agassiz.
Land use in the basin is primarily agricultural. Extensive drainage systems built since the late 1800s have converted native prairie and wetlands into prime farmland. Several urban areas are located adjacent to the Red River and its tributaries. The basin is subject to frequent floods that affect urban and rural infrastructure and agricultural production. Conversion of native prairie to farmland has resulted in significant loss of habitat for many wildlife species, especially migratory waterfowl and shorebirds.
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Status
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The Red River of the North reconnaissance study continues to be a vehicle for devel¬oping feasibility studies in the basin.
• Fargo, N.D.-Moorhead, Minn., metropolitan area: A supplemental reconnaissance analysis for flood risk management was approved in April 2008. Scoping for a cost-shared feasibility study is nearly complete; execution of a feasibility cost share agreement is anticipated in fall 2008.
• Pembina River basin, North Dakota: A supplemental reconnaissance analysis is nearly complete but is on hold pending identification of a non-federal feasibility study sponsor.
The initial basin-wide reconnaissance report, approved in September 2002, led to the Wild Rice River, Minn., feasibility study, the Fargo, N.D.-Moorhead, Minn., and Upstream feasibility study, and the Red River basin-wide watershed study. (All three studies are proceeding.) Supplemental reconnaissance analyses have also been completed in Roseau, Minn., and Crookston, Minn.
Additional study efforts will be considered as stakeholders express interest in them.
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Authority
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These studies are authorized by a resolution of the Senate Committee on Public Works, Sept. 30, 1974.
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Fiscal
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The following is a summary of the funds received for the Red River basin reconnaissance study:
Fiscal year 2008 $ 98,000
Total since fiscal year 2001 $625,000
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