by INFORUM
Downstream communities asked to join flood group
September 29, 2010 at 7:00 pm in INFORUM
Goal is to ensure they aren’t affected by proposed F-M diversion
GRAND FORKS Red River Valley leaders were asked Wednesday to join up and create a unified voice to ensure downstream communities aren’t affected by the proposed Fargo-Moorhead diversion project. Continue Reading
Did not hear any of these communities speak up when GF put up a dike to protect them or when Whap and Break did their diversion. HMMM. Only goes to show that most of the FM area needs to fend for itself. Personally I wish the FM are would just dike the whole river with their own money and get the Fed out of it. Then we can do what ever we want and the other communities would be screwed.
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“Then we can do what ever we want and the other communities would be screwed.”
How would that be a change from what FM diversion proposal is currently doing?
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It would be different. The Fed would be out of it. No red tape. It would have been done or at least started by now. The only similarity in it is that the downstream communities would still have the flood as an issue because the dikes just push it further North. So that is about the only thing that would not change except they could not stop what FM area did within their borders. Another question to ask yourself is how many people from these little towns that have very little job opportunity come to FM to work. If FM area goes down so will your livelihood. I actually wish the city would get wiped out. Then we would have all kinds of money to build what ever we want.
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Best be careful what you wish for. I doubt getting flooded would be the fun lucrative event you are hoping for.
Ah, and I see you went with the arguement that Fargo is being kind to all the poeple downstream by providing them all with jobs therefore it’s ok that they pass their flood problems on to them. Nice, but not everyone that lives outside the city limits of Fargo drives there to work.
If you think you are being a friend to people who live downstream of Fargo “saving” a few jobs for them by putting everyones homes at greater risk, thanks, but no thanks, we don’t need friends like that. Besides I shouldn’t have to worry about losing a job in Fargo because according to you there will be all kinds of money to rebuild things, including a job for me.
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The Federal Government has to look at things from a cost-benefit model. If they spend 1.4 billion, and then have to pay more to protect downstream communities, the cost benefit ratio that was used to push the project forward suddenly shrinks. The diversion should never have been the one solution to Fargo’s flooding problems. Diking low-lying areas, as well as buying out homes that are just too close to the river or on too low of land should have been part of the deal to begin with. A smaller diversion could be built, the city would still be protected, and the cost of protecting downstream communities to higher levels would be reduced.
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SO what you are saying is that by diking and doing a diversion that would lower the water level down stream. Common sense would say no. Because the diversion would join up with the Red river somewhere and the dike just pushes the level higher down stream this would not decrease the level that is seen in the smaller towns. Try again. Now if you said that we need to hold water in fields or a huge dam or something that I will go along with in reference to decreasing levels of water. But your proposal does not suggest that.
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I agree Jordan. The solution will need to be a variety of measures, and preferrably measures that don’t put some groups at greater risk.
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Better hurry, the ground is saturated again and a heavy snowfall is predicted. Oh but lets just keep putting this off, I’m sure nothing bad will happen.
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Get ready people to sandbag your river homes. Better yet city leaders – get ready to protect the infrastructure yet another year.
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