mitigation

A recent editorial from a Midwest newspaper. A preliminary report from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources all but endorses the findings of several agencies and private engineers that water retention impoundment alone cannot provide the level of permanent flood protection...

GRANITE FALLS -- Granite Falls is moving forward with plans for protecting Prentice Street homes along the Minnesota River south of the former City Hall site. At the regular meeting Monday, City Council members discussed a recent meeting with affected landowners about the project...

ST.PAUL -- A $50 million flood mitigation program will help fund highway im-provement projects over the next five years that will make state roadways more resistant to future flood damage. According to the Minnesota Department of Transportation, the state allocation, coupled with...

ST.PAUL - A $50 million flood mitigation program will help fund highway improvement projects over the next five years that will make state roadways more resistant to future flood damage.

GRANITE FALLS -- Granite Falls City Council members adopted policy changes that will allow the city to move forward with a proposal to develop a floodwall base between Prentice Street homes and the Minnesota River. The action on Monday will allow the city to acquire property that...

GRANITE FALLS -- News that the city will be receiving $2 million of the $2.2 million originally sought in flood mitigation monies for the coming year shaped the agenda Monday for the Granite Falls City Council. The recent confirmation from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources...

The flood of 2010 on the Minnesota River fortunately did not grow into the monster floods of 1997 or 2001 in west central Minnesota. Credit for flood mitigation efforts go to the citizens and officials of Granite Falls and Montevideo over the past 13 years. They also had a little...

GRANITE FALLS -- City Council members in Granite Falls called for a public hearing on July 20 for a proposed water rate increase. A rate hike is the first step toward a possible $14 million project to build a new water treatment plant out of the floodplain, according to City Manager...

WILLMAR -- A document that lays out plans for handling all natural and manmade disasters in the county was approved Monday by the Kandiyohi County Board of Commissioners. The "hazard mitigation plan" spells out specific ways to prevent loss of life and property as well as how emergency...

WILLMAR -- A document that lays out plans for handling all natural and manmade disasters in the county was approved Monday by the Kandiyohi County Board of Commissioners. The "hazard mitigation plan" spells out specific ways to prevent loss of life and property as well as how emergency...

GRANITE FALLS -- The Granite Falls City Council will take proposals from developers interested in saving a downtown building otherwise slated for removal under the flood mitigation program. The council agreed Monday to accept requests for proposals until Jan.