{"id":183195,"date":"2019-10-21T17:01:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T22:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=183195"},"modified":"2019-10-21T21:39:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T02:39:52","slug":"great-concerns-on-flooding-higher-dam-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=183195","title":{"rendered":"Great concerns on flooding &#038; higher dam releases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 On Monday afternoon, North Dakota Governor, Doug Burgum, along with State Agriculture Commissioner, Doug Goehring and other state and local, officials attended the Jamestown meeting, at the Civic Center, to hear firsthand about the potentially devastating impacts of the unusually wet weather and to share information about the state\u2019s response, including gathering information.<\/p>\n<div class=\"easyRotatorWrapper\" align=\"center\">\r\n\r\n<!-- Begin DWUser_EasyRotator -->\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/c520866.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com\/1\/js\/easy_rotator.min.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div class=\"dwuserEasyRotator\" style=\"width: 600px; 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Payments from the program take into account a producer\u2019s crop insurance coverage and the size of the loss.<\/p>\n<p>Burgum said, \u201cThere\u2019s an economic hardship that we\u2019re facing here relative to this fall\u2019s harvest that is likely unprecedented. We have a whole team of people across the state who will be activated as part of our whole-of-government approach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He told the Jamestown gathering that their remains billions of dollars of crops in the fields affecting not only farmers, but also ag-related businesses, and the state\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/FallFloodingCommMtg-Goehring.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-183192 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/FallFloodingCommMtg-Goehring-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Goehring added, \u201cThis is a challenging time for many of our agricultural producers across the state. We want to do as much as we can to help assess what the losses and damages are out there and what the next steps will be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also at the meeting were producers from Stutsman and Barnes Counties, along with Kidder, Foster, Logan and LaMoure Counties, who spoke of being in dire straights in getting their crops off, cattle that can not get to market, and county roads that continue to have water over them and are impassable.\u00a0 Most indicated the need to move the harvest deadline to later, however that will also delay the ability to file insurance claims until after that date.<\/p>\n<p>State legislative representatives also spoke, and those from other agencies,\u00a0 provided additional resources available in the areas of mental health, and the crisis intervention phone line 2-1-1.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DohrmannAlan445.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-89417\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DohrmannAlan445-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>North Dakota Department of Emergency Services Director Army National Guard Major General Alan Dohrman added paperwork is being filed for federal assistance and resources.<\/p>\n<p>Also at the meeting were representatives from the City of Jamestown, the City Council, and Stutsman County Commission, along with Interstate Engineering the city\u2019s engineer.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Burgum concluded the meeting by telling the large gathering that \u201cYour voice does matter,\u201d and to \u201cbreak through bureaucracy,\u201d in order to get help initiated in a timely matter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FTheReplayChannel%2Fvideos%2F1336949309830372%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 On Monday afternoon, North Dakota Governor, Doug Burgum, along with State Agriculture Commissioner, Doug Goehring and other state and local, officials attended the Jamestown meeting, at the Civic Center, to hear firsthand about the potentially devastating impacts of the unusually wet weather and to share information about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":183194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183195"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183222,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183195\/revisions\/183222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/183194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}