OUR OPINION: Valley water-supply project demands attention
October 18, 2012 at 4:30 pm in Grand Forks Herald
While an emergency water supply isn’t an urgent need just yet, the months-long drought and low river levels low “trickle” levels in some cases are reminders of just how fickle the local water supply can be. Continue Reading
Winnipeg gets its water from the Lake of the Woods by pipeline. Why shoudn’t Minn/NDak consider a pipeline from LOTW to the Red Lake River which would @ least deliver water to the northern RRV? Of course GF/EGF already gets water from resevoirs called Upper & Lower Red Lake in Mn. & Lake Traverse on the SDak /Mn. border. Why not tap the Lake of Woods since the amount of water from Red Lake & Lake Traverse is limited. The LOTW drains a vast area of Ontario & Northern Mn. including the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, aka BWCA. The cost of a pipeline from LOTW would be cheaper & Canada wouldn’t have an environmental issue with it since LOTW/Red R. is part of the same Lake Winnipeg watershed.
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Reservoir not resevoir, excuse me. I forgot to mention GF/EGF also gets its water from a 3rd reservoir called Lake Ashtabula, just north of Valley City, on the Cheyenne R. as the art. states.
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