ND Flood Channel Group Wants Money For Ad Campaign

Supporters of a $1.8 billion flood control channel around Fargo and Moorhead, Minn., say they need to do a better job at public relations.

 

 

 

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) - Supporters of a $1.8 billion flood control channel around Fargo and Moorhead, Minn., say they need to do a better job at public relations.

A subcommittee of the Red River Diversion Authority will ask the group's board for money to promote the channel and its controversial staging area that would flood an area south of the city during times of serious flooding.

The public outreach subcommittee has not outlined specifics of the campaign.

The staging area would affect about 200,000 acres, in Oxbow, Hickson and Bakke. Some residents in those areas have complained about the overflow area and a proposed ring dike around some homes.

(KFGO News file photo)

 

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