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Red River Flood Risk Seen High, But Less Than 2009

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The Red River has the potential for major spring flooding in Manitoba and North Dakota, Canadian and U. S. forecasters said Jan. 25, but it’s unlikely to be as severe as last year, when flood waters swamped fields and left many farmers unable to plant crops. High soil moisture before winter and high levels on
Opinion

What Is A 100-Year Flood?

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In the past 40 years, nearly all of those living in the Red River Valley have had them – 100-year floods, that is. And some have experienced flood levels considerably beyond this. The 1969 spring flood at Crookston, Minn. was just slightly less than a 100-year flood. The 1997 flood at Grand Forks, Pembina and
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Valley Residents Fed Up With Red River Flooding

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Frustration about constant flooding from the Red River spilled over at an international commission forum on flood solutions for the Red River basin. Local residents voiced aggravation at the economic and emotional toll from spring floods which regularly inundate farmland and cut off communities. Many demanded compensation for the expense, damage and inconvenience caused by
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Floodway Makes Upstream Flooding Worse, Valley Farmers Say

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“We’re a holding pond for Winnipeg.” – LORNE HAMBLIN Thick, gooey mud squishes under Lorne Hamblin’s rubber boots as he slogs through a field which should be sprouting green shoots. Instead, it’s a sea of heavy muck caused by retreating flood water and made worse by an inch of rain the day before. Hamblin stops,
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Manitoba-North Dakota Border Flooding Issue Flares Up Again

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“We want all the drainage to occur as nature intended.” – NORTH DAKOTA OFFICIAL Bryon Heinrichs steers his pickup truck westward and drives cautiously along a rutted embankment with bare cropland on both sides. The fields are slowly drying out after being flooded by the spring melt four weeks earlier. That is, some fields were
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Spring Floods Among Worst In History

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A vast overland sea stretched across the Red River Valley this week as weary residents hunkered down behind berms and ring dikes to wait out the fourth-worst flood in Manitoba’s history. A lake up to 10 miles wide from the swollen Red River and its tributaries spread over 975 square kilometres, leaving communities and farmyards
Cereals, News

Farmers Prepared For Flooding

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“I would say 98 per cent of the people are prepared for the flood.” – DAVE WALDNER The Flood of the Century seriously disrupted Dave Waldner’s hog operation. But if it happens again, he’s ready. The ring dike around his farm east of Rosenort has been raised two feet above 1997 flood levels. Municipal water
Cereals, News

Spring Flood Risk Worsens For Red River Valley

Farmers in the Red River Valley are bracing for one of the worst spring floods on record after heavy snow this week. The river runs north from the northern states of North Dakota and Minnesota into the Canadian province of Manitoba. The U. S. National Weather Service upgraded March 13 the flood potential in the
Opinion

Who minds the Red’s flow in drought years?

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Recent rains here in the Red River Basin have had many of us worrying about getting crops off the fields, and certainly not about drought. But history in the basin promises us that drought, to some degree or another, will indeed be part of our experience here. Are we prepared for it? According to a

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