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Northwest Minnesota flood projects and FM Diversion needs outlined to bonding committee
Summary
Representatives and watershed officials described a portfolio of flood hazard mitigation projects in the Red River Basin, the FM Diversion/Moorhead needs, and Area 2 river‑basin water‑retention work, requesting state bonding to complete partially funded impoundments and lift stations.
The House Capital Investment Committee heard March 20 from watershed managers, county officials and mayors seeking bonding to finish flood hazard mitigation projects in Northwest and west‑central Minnesota.
Speakers described multi‑purpose flood impoundments, levees, ring dikes and completed but not certified diversion components they said are essential to reducing flood risk for farms, towns and regional infrastructure.
Robert Sipp, executive director of the Red River Watershed Management Board, asked for roughly $48,600,000 to fund several larger impoundments and city projects in the Red River Basin. He said the projects together would create “100,000 acre‑feet of new water storage on the…
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