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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Crow River at Delano, Minnesota
Location/Description
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The city of Delano is located on the Crow River in Minnesota's Wright County, approximately 40 miles west of the Twin Cities. It has had five significant floods in the past 15 years. It is thought that overland flow from adjacent developing communities that flows toward the city’s interior drainage system is a contributing factor to the city’s flooding problem.
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By resolution dated Aug. 6, 2002, Delano asked the Corps of Engineers to conduct studies to determine the feasibility of developing a small flood control project for the city.
A federal interest study was begun in April 2004. The study evaluated the benefits available through flood damage reduction, as well as the cost of structural flood damage reduction measures, such as levees and floodwalls.
Cost-benefit analyses indicate that structural flood control measures are not feasible, because the costs are not supported by the benefits available. Benefit-cost ratios are on the order of 0.07 to 0.23, indicating that there is no federal interest in a project at Delano.
Nonstructural measures, such as flood proofing, may be appropriate for preventing flood damage to individual properties.
The state of Minnesota has purchased some properties on the left bank of the river, south of the railroad tracks. The Minnesota Department of Transportation has plans to raise the highway bridge and a portion of Highway 12, which may further reduce the impacts of flooding. The city is pursuing Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, funding for a pumping station, which may eliminate some interior flooding and could reduce the costs of a federal flood control project.
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Authority
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Section 205 of the 1948 Flood Control Act, as amended
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Fiscal
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The first $100,000 of feasibility study costs is at full federal expense and is used to prepare a federal interest report and feasibility cost share agreement. Funds for the study were provided in fiscal years 2004 and 2005. Because there appears to be no federal interest in further study, no additional funds have been requested. A federal interest and termination report will be prepared in fiscal year 2007 with remaining funds.
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