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F-M DIVERSION

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The diversion project's upstream mitigation area includes 11 rural cemeteries that face some degree of flooding risk, which diversion officials are working to address in consultation with the owners.
The money is part of the federal government’s commitment to provide $750 million toward the project. The state of North Dakota also has committed $750 million, although diversion officials last year asked the state to increase that by $120 million to eliminate a gap in funding caused by design changes and escalating costs resulting from litigation delays.
FARGO — North Dakota legislators are pushing for an audit to examine land purchased for the Fargo-Moorhead flood diversion project to settle long-standing concerns about the process and amounts paid for some parcels.
FARGO — The top official who oversees Army Corps of Engineers projects and was responsible for boosting federal funding for the diversion met with local officials and pledged his continuing support to keep the $2.75 billion flood project on track.

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BISMARCK — North Dakota's congressional delegation announced that financing for the Fargo-Moorhead flood diversion took a major step forward with an agreement opening the door to apply for $510 million in low-interest financing.
The flood diversion got its most significant permit for the project, to enable construction of a dam to regulate flows into the diversion channel, but still must clear further permits and meet more than 50 conditions — a process Minnesota regulators expect will take a decade while construction is underway. The project also requires $600 million in additional funding.
MOORHEAD, Minn. -- Gubernatorial candidate Tim Pawlenty and his running mate, Lt. Gov. Michelle Fischbach, made a stop in Moorhead to talk about the issues they will be running on in Minnesota this year.
FARGO -- Minnesota regulators have decided they must conduct a supplemental environmental review of the revised Fargo-Moorhead Diversion, and now local officials hope permit approval for the $2.4 billion project can come this fall.
FARGO -- Board members have voted unanimously to accept all recommendations from a task force for a project to divert some flood waters around Fargo-Moorhead and will submit a new permit application to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.
FARGO -- A revised F-M diversion significantly reduces impacts in rural Minnesota but increases impacts in rural Cass County while allowing more water to flow through Fargo-Moorhead during severe floods estimated to occur once every 20 years.

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FARGO -- All parties to the federal lawsuit against the $2.2 billion Fargo-Moorhead flood diversion have agreed to put the suit on pause while a bi-state task force tries to hammer out a compromise, the Diversion Authority said Friday, Nov. 3.
MOORHEAD, Minn. -- A task force seeking consensus on the Fargo-Moorhead flood diversion found consensus on a couple of issues at its Wednesday, Nov. 1, meeting even as deep disagreements on other issues continued.
FARGO -- The governors of North Dakota and Minnesota have named members of a task force aimed at seeking compromise on the Fargo-Moorhead flood diversion, and it includes several people who have opposed the project.

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