The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) St. Paul District reached major milestones in 2022 in its efforts to reduce flood risk to more than 235,000 people in the greater Fargo, North Dakota-Moorhead, Minnesota, metro area.
USACE leaders supported its partner, the Metro Flood Diversion Authority, as they broke ground on
their portion of a diversion project that includes a 30-mile diversion channel. Aug. 9
In a field with construction equipment near the site where the diversion channel will tie back into the red river of the North, elected officials from North Dakota and Minnesota as well as senior leaders within USACE, to include Jaime Pinkham, principal deputy for assistant secretary of the Army for Civil Works; Stacey Brown, deputy assistant secretary of the Army for Civil Works (Management and Budget); Maj. Gen. Diana Holland, Mississippi Valley Division commander; and Col. Eric Swenson, St. Paul District commander, gathered to provide some perspective on this mileston, which was years in the making.
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