by INFORUM
Kindred concerned about diversion impacts
January 11, 2011 at 6:00 pm in INFORUM
Possible cuts in student aid, lost tax valuation prompt questions in community
The Kindred (N.D.) School District is bracing for what a proposed Fargo-Moorhead diversion might mean for a new school project and its future tax base. Continue Reading
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We need to halt the diversion because its a myopic bad choice, Not because of school districting.
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Veritgo where have you been. The problem is that they want to hold water back that will flood Hickson, Bakke and Oxbow. People need to understand that though Fargo is the biggest city they aren’t the only ones that are going to lose out during a flood.
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With hub citys growing that hurts the small towns with an out flow of people to the city. Best thing that happened after the GF flood is that small towns got new business, new families and even the schools got new students. After the flooding there wasn’t a rush to get back into that town and many stayed in the small communities and are still there. I was in the small communities around GF and the new students were nice and some behaved others got kicked out but most stayed after and even now when visiting and hearing about how the towns have grown and some new jobs.
Now the communities in cass county didn’t vote for the tax but the residents of the city did and those that voted for the city tax were only those that are affected by there developments lack of food protection. Which is what happens when you build houses in the natural overflow of a river is that it FLOOD people.
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Use a little common sense, Atxgiant. The diversion isn’t going to be holding any more water back than before, in fact a diversion will allow MORE to go through FASTER. That’s the objective of a diversion; it will help Fargo, but Grand Forks and Winnipeg will get hit much harder.
Does that help those upstream people who are STILL being flooded with water that has yet to hit Fargo? Nope, nada , not one bit, and thats what has their panties in a bunch. I don’t blame them. The diversion won’t hurt them, but it sure won’t help either.
The only solution for their problem is upstream water retention, and dikes (a diversion is another form of dike). Whats sad is instead of Fargo seeing this, they are just building more dikes. If we want to stop the regional flooding, we need to stop the immediate flow of water, and release it through the summer.
An easy step would be to put in control release valves in all the farm fields so they don’t drain until upstream fields have drained. At that point, your town won’t be impacted as hard, and Fargo won’t need a diversion.
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They would lose people from those towns anyway. Even if there wasn’t any diversion. I sure wouldn’t want to stay there if there is no flood control. We seen what happened to them without flood control.
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I’d rather watch Fargo get washed off the map then pay for a plan thats not going to help our neighbors to all sides. put up flood walls like GF did and let moorhead flood. since they dont want to cover there “equal” share in this metro area.
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Moorhead already is putting flood walls up! Duh!
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Yeah, Moorhead bothers me too, and I grew up there. We have a cheap bridge on 12th ave N because Mhd wouldn’t pay its share, and most of the people who use it are Mhd residents traveling to Fargo to jobs.
It SHOULD be a major arterial road like main ave. is, but if its not municipal, they aren’t going to master plan a major road there. Good city planning dictates this, and Moorhead ignores it to get out of paying their fair share.
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