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Devil's Lake basin speakers urge state review of long-term damage to landowners
Summary
Local officials and residents described decades-long inundation, sovereign-land designations and limited compensation; testimony emphasized lost acreage, property-tax effects and requests for statewide review of outlet operations and mitigation.
Several presenters and county officials told the committee the Devil's Lake basin has experienced decades of rising water and large-scale inundation that has left private farmland underwater, reduced productive acreage and created long-term economic and infrastructure impacts.
Jeff Frith, manager of the Devil's Lake Basin Joint Water Resource Board, said basin elevation increases have inundated tens of thousands of private acres and cited county-level inundation tallies and the…
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