DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s state engineer says repairs have been completed at the east-end floodwater diversion outlet on Devils Lake.
     Todd Sando says officials on Monday were getting outlet operations restarted.

He says officials are confident they can ramp up to the outlet’s maximum flow soon.
     The east-end outlet came online earlier this summer, to
complement a west-end outlet.

A pipeline leak earlier this month led to ground erosion and pipe settling at the east-end structure.
Sando says the repairs were covered under warranty.

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DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (AP) – The east-end floodwater diversion  outlet on Devils Lake has been shut down for repairs. The problem was first reported by the Devils Lake Journal.

State Water Commission Engineer Bruce Engelhardt tells The Associated Press that a pipeline leak earlier this month led to some ground erosion and pipe settling. He doesn’t have a cost estimate but says most of the repairs are the responsibility of a contractor.

Engelhardt says he hopes the problem will be fixed in a matter of days.   The lake’s west-end outlet is still pumping excess Devils Lake water into the Sheyenne River. But with the east-end outlet shut down, the amount of water being moved off the lake is less than half what it was. The east-end outlet came online in early summer.