{"id":182586,"date":"2019-10-14T16:13:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T21:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=182586"},"modified":"2019-10-14T20:35:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T01:35:40","slug":"council-passes-resolution-emergency-declaration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=182586","title":{"rendered":"Council passes Resolution: Emergency Declaration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-147437 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/HeinrichMayor445a-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/HeinrichMayor445a-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/HeinrichMayor445a-260x175.jpg 260w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/HeinrichMayor445a.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 The Jamestown City Council met in Special Session Monday evening at City Hall, to discuss action relative to anticipated reservoir releases.\u00a0 All members were present.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy City Auditor Jay Sveum was subbing for City Administrator, Sarah Helleckson.<\/p>\n<p>Before the meeting, Mayor Dwaine Heinrich said, during recent conference calls, the city has been in communications with The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the State Department of Emergency Service the State of South Dakota, and \u00a0the City of LaMoure.<\/p>\n<p>He added that engineers are working on flood mitigation measures, saying volunteers will be needed for possible sandbagging, and dikeing, for the safety of the public, property, and city infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Flood2AvSWOct14.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-182621\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Flood2AvSWOct14-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Flood2AvSWOct14-300x202.png 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Flood2AvSWOct14-260x175.png 260w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Flood2AvSWOct14.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>He said a fall flood event allows easier access to the river, than in the spring, when the frozen ground creates sloppy, muddy conditions.<\/p>\n<p>He said as <a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=182355\">of Monday the combined releases from Jamestown and Pipestem Dams was at 1800 cfs. Jamestown Dam is releasing 1000 cfs and Pipestem Dam is releasing 800 cfs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the Meeting, The City Council unanimously passed a Resolution to ratify the Mayor\u2019s Emergency Declaration and extend the declaration and agree to be the designated project sponsor for the duration of the\u00a0at least minimal\u00a0flood event.<\/p>\n<p>Heinrich said a Public meeting is scheduled to held this week, with various agencies with additional planning and mitigation information.<\/p>\n<p>CSiNewsNow.Com was informed that expected at that meeting Wednesday October 16, at 5:30-p.m., in the City Hall,\u00a0lower level meeting room,\u00a0is representatives from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from Omaha, The National Weather Service, and the city\u2019s engineering firm, Interstate Engineering, along with Stutsman County Emergency Management. \u00a0 More official information on the notification of the meeting is forthcoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 The Jamestown City Council met in Special Session Monday evening at City Hall, to discuss action relative to anticipated reservoir releases.\u00a0 All members were present. Deputy City Auditor Jay Sveum was subbing for City Administrator, Sarah Helleckson. Before the meeting, Mayor Dwaine Heinrich said, during recent conference calls, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":182621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182586","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=182586"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182647,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182586\/revisions\/182647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/182621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}