NoDak History: The Great Flood of 1881
By Steve Hoffbeck / September 27, 2011 / News, Nodak History, Top Stories / No Comments
The Missouri River provides great beauty when it flows within its usual course. But when the murmuring waters of the Big Muddy rise to become a torrent, the peaceful river becomes a woeful hazard. This year’s flood will go down in history, but it may be put into context by examining newspaper archives and congressional […]
Read More →InFocus with Burleigh County Commissioner Jim Peluso
By Shawn McKenna / August 18, 2011 / Flood, News, People, Top Stories / 2 Comments
Jim Peluso is in his second term on the Burleigh County Commission, and he’s worked for the Bismarck Parks and Recreation Department for more than 30 years. Peluso’s day job and his passion intertwine in some ways; he’s the facility manager in charge of pools and arenas, and he’s a hockey nut who coached the […]
Read More →ND braces for $3B economic hit from record amount of wasted farmland
By Matt Bunk / August 12, 2011 / Business, News, Top Stories / No Comments
North Dakota’s largest economic engine is sputtering this year due to heavy rain and river flooding that laid waste to more than a quarter of the farmland in the state. The state’s agriculture industry stands to lose more than $1 billion during what will go down as the wettest, most unproductive growing season in generations. […]
Read More →Corps refuses to disclose untold number of e-mails
By Matt Bunk / August 5, 2011 / Flood, News, Top Stories / 2 Comments
Last month, the Corps of Engineers turned over thousands of pages of e-mails sent and received by Missouri River water chief Jody Farhat, but the agency refused to turn over an untold number of messages that included “internal deliberations” between government officials about water-management operations during the months leading up to the flood. The Corps’ […]
Read More →Farhat defends Corps after e-mails revealed warnings
By Matt Bunk / August 5, 2011 / Flood, News, Top Stories / 3 Comments
Just more than a week after thousands of pages of her e-mails were published online, Jody Farhat, the Corps of Engineers’ chief water manager for the Missouri River, granted an interview to the Great Plains Examiner. Here is a partial transcript of that conversation. According to some news reports I’ve read, the Corps is saying that releasing […]
Read More →Corps of Engineers grilled by ND political leaders
By Matt Bunk / July 27, 2011 / Flood, ND in DC, News, Top Stories / 2 Comments
North Dakota’s political leaders have ratcheted up the pressure on the Corps of Engineers by scrutinizing flood-control plans for the rest of the year and requesting more thorough explanations of the water-management decisions that led to the ongoing flood. U.S. Sens. Kent Conrad (D) and John Hoeven (R) met with Corps of Engineers Brig. Gen. John McMahon […]
Read More →Mandan’s Battle of the Bays
By Mike Albrecht / July 5, 2011 / Flood, Mandan News, News, Top Stories / 1 Comment
As the Missouri River threatened to burst out of its banks, Mandan had to act fast or lose more than a thousand homes and face financial disaster. With millions of dollars in taxes on the line, Mandan desperately searched for a way to save its wastewater treatment plant and four of its subdivisions – Marina […]
Read More →Public records show Corps reacted too late to avoid flood
By Matt Bunk / July 2, 2011 / Flood, News, Top Stories / 18 Comments
In early May, Mark Unterseher was fishing off sandbars near his home on the heavily wooded shoreline two miles northwest of Bismarck. He was doing the same thing in April while the Missouri River was flowing lethargically past his neighborhood at a depth of just more than six feet. Unterseher, 44, said it’s hard not to think […]
Read More →Southport makes final stand against flood without city’s protection
By Matt Bunk / June 30, 2011 / Bismarck News, Flood, News, Top Stories / 8 Comments
The sun was setting behind a row of riverfront homes in Southport one evening last month as Kevin Turnbow made the rounds in his neighborhood, checking the pumps he rigged to keep groundwater from filling the basements of some of the swankiest homes in Bismarck. He pulled over to a curb and leaned out the […]
Read More →It’s time to change the Corps’ Master Manual
By Matt Bunk / June 30, 2011 / Flood, Matt Bunk's Column, Opinion / 5 Comments
Sometimes it takes a flood to get our priorities straight. That might be true on a lot of levels, but none more so than the need to correct the absurd methods of managing the Missouri River reservoir system. This year’s flood so far hasn’t caused the catastrophe in Bismarck-Mandan that many people feared it would. […]
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