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State and regional engineers to inspect roughly 50 county dams under new prioritization criteria
Summary
Representatives from the Department of Water Resources and the Red River Retention Authority briefed the board on a new dam rehabilitation prioritization and said they plan to inspect about 50 dams; the board asked to be notified of any dams of concern.
Yaping Chi, Water Resource Engineer for the North Dakota Department of Water Resources, and Brian Fuder, Executive Director of the Red River Retention Authority, attended a portion of the Traill County WRD meeting to present a newly developed dam-rehabilitation prioritization criteria.
Chi and Fuder said the team plans to inspect each of roughly 50 dams in the district to determine current dam conditions based on inspection findings. They asked board members to notify them of any dams the board knows of that may have potential issues. The presentation focused on inspection planning and criteria; no funding or schedule for repairs was finalized at this meeting.
The board’s participation in the inspection plan creates a county-level inventory step and may inform future rehabilitation priorities and potential funding requests.
