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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Marsh Creek near Mahnomen, Minnesota
Location/Description
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Marsh Creek is a tributary of the Wild Rice River, which is a tributary to the Red River of the North in west-central Minnesota. Local interests are exploring floodwater storage opportunities in the Marsh Creek watershed and on other tributaries to the Wild Rice River. In May 2004, the Wild Rice Watershed District suspended efforts to get state and federal permits for Marsh Creek Site 6, located approximately 4 miles northwest of Mahnomen, Minn.
The Marsh Creek Site 6 project is described as an earthen dam with a gated outlet and approximately 3,400 acre-feet of floodwater storage. Other floodwater storage sites in the Marsh Creek watershed have been suggested for potential federal interest as alternatives to Site 6 or as elements of a comprehensive multiple-site flood damage reduction project.
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The watershed district, the non-federal sponsor, requested a feasibility study in May 2004. The main objective of the federal interest study is the reduction of flood damages along the Marsh Creek and its tributaries by reducing peak discharges through floodwater detention.
For this assessment, damages from flooding used in the economic analysis were taken at the city of Ada, Minn. It was thought that benefits at Ada had greater potential than benefits in the local Marsh Creek drainage basin. Benefits of a Marsh Creek storage plan are based on the level of protection provided by the city of Ada levee system. Out of all the floodwater storage plan alternatives, two plans have the greatest benefits due to reducing downstream flood stages at Ada. The project is shown to have favorable federal interest with a benefit-cost ratio for the two plans ranging from 0.93 to 1.54.
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The level of protection of the Ada levee system may be improved, either by the efforts of the city or from the results of the Section 205 Ada feasibility study. Based on the possibility of the decrease in benefits for the Marsh Creek storage plan, this assessment recommends proceeding with a detailed feasibility study when more information and analysis have been done for the Ada levees. The study is complete and has been reviewed by the non-federal sponsor. When the moratorium on cost share agreements is lifted and federal funding is available, the watershed district supports moving on to a 50/50 federal/non-federal cost shared detailed feasibility study.
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Authority
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Section 205 of the 1948 Flood Control Act, as amended.
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In fiscal year 2005, $75,000 was allocated to perform the study. A project cooperation agreement must be carried out before any further work can begin. Feasibility study costs will be cost shared 50/50 federal/non-federal. Plans and specifications and construction of the project are cost shared 65-percent federal and 35-percent non-federal.
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