{"id":168440,"date":"2019-03-28T17:57:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T22:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=168440"},"modified":"2019-03-29T11:24:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T16:24:41","slug":"city-commission-approves-flood-emergency-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=168440","title":{"rendered":"VC Commission approves Flood Resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Valley City (CSi)\u00a0 The Valley City Commission met in Special Session on Thursday evening unanimously \u00a0approving a Resolution to declare a Flood emergency.\u00a0 All members were present.<\/p>\n

City Administrator, David Schelkoph said the purpose of the Resolution is prepare paperwork in order to send to state and federal officials, in the event funds are needed in a flood fight.<\/p>\n

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He said the city\u2019s action is not to increase fear in the community on possible flooding.<\/p>\n

He said the projected flood stage on the Sheyenne in Valley City is 13 to 16 and a half feet adding the level \u00a0depends on rainfall amounts and the progress of the snow melt.<\/p>\n

He said major flood stage is 17 feet, moderate flood stage is 16 feet, and flood prevention action kicks in at 15 feet.\u00a0 At a river level of 16 feet, about 10,000 sandbags would be needed for additional protection.<\/p>\n

He said city officials are preparing for any possible flooding as there is a significant amount of water in the water shed north of Valley City.<\/p>\n

He added that Lake Ashtabula has significant capacity to handle inflows as of Friday morning , at 1257.90 feet. See the latest reading from the NWS click here\u00a0National Weather Service\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0and scroll down to Bald Hill dam and Valley City levels.<\/p>\n

He said the previously projected flood impacts on the Sheyenne and Valley City is about two weeks ahead of what is actually occurring.<\/p>\n

He said significant rainfall, in the next few weeks, or a rapid increase in snow melt, will change the flood outlook and any actual flooding that may occur.\u00a0 Water amounts in the snow pack <\/a>\u00a0are\u00a0located on the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n

He added that Valley City has been proactive in flood prevention in installing permanent flood mitigation and buying out homes in the flood zone.<\/p>\n

He said a decision will be made on building flood walls if or when the river level reaches 12-13 feet.<\/p>\n

Valley City hosted the meeting on March 18th<\/sup>, when\u00a0 Schelkoph said, North Dakota Emergency Management, and local authorities including the Corps of Engineers, are on the same page to \u00a0mobilize their flood fighting efforts.<\/p>\n

Then, the City Commission with a Resolution to request Emergency Flood Assistance from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was tabled at this time.<\/p>\n

Schelkoph said flood protection with the river level at below 15 feet would be able to be handled by city crews, above would require action by the City Commission to contact the Corps for assistance.<\/p>\n

The meeting was shown live on CSi Cable 68 followed by replays.<\/p>\n

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Valley City (CSi)\u00a0 The Valley City Commission met in Special Session on Thursday evening unanimously \u00a0approving a Resolution to declare a Flood emergency.\u00a0 All members were present. City Administrator, David Schelkoph said the purpose of the Resolution is prepare paperwork in order to send to state and federal officials, in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":119133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-uncategorized","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168440"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168510,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168440\/revisions\/168510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}