Missouri Valley Complex committee votes to recommend bid for wetland delineation using complex funds

The Missouri Valley Complex Committee voted to recommend that the Burleigh County Commission put the wetland-delineation work for the Missouri Valley Complex out to bid and to authorize use of Missouri Valley Complex fund monies to pay for the effort.

The motion followed an extended update about a proposed racetrack and site constraints. Commissioner Munson introduced the item and turned the floor to Josh, who said wetlands, floodplain rules and school trust‑land restrictions limit where an asphalt track could be built on the complex. Josh told the committee that if wetland alteration exceeds a half‑acre, the county must either secure mitigation credits or provide compensatory acreage and that mitigation credits are expensive: “Those are $83,000 an acre,” he said. Staff noted that once a delineation is submitted…