{"id":21639,"date":"2013-06-24T07:42:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T12:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=21639"},"modified":"2013-06-24T07:43:07","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T12:43:07","slug":"water-comm-approves-eng-work-sheyenne-flood-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=21639","title":{"rendered":"Water Comm. Approves Eng. Work, Sheyenne Flood Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/SheyenneRiverFlood1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18100\" alt=\"SheyenneRiverFlood1\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/SheyenneRiverFlood1-300x200.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/SheyenneRiverFlood1-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/SheyenneRiverFlood1-262x175.png 262w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/SheyenneRiverFlood1.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota&#8217;s State Water Commission has approved about $1.3 million to begin engineering work on a $60 million project to protect Valley City, Lisbon and Fort Ransom from Sheyenne River flooding.<\/p>\n<p>The Sheyenne River Valley Flood Control Project will use a combination of property buyouts, floodwalls and levees to safeguard the cities. The state Legislature earlier this year approved $21 million for the effort. The cities also will contribute.<\/p>\n<p>The state is making an exception to its practice of helping with construction costs but requiring local entities to cover engineering costs for such projects. Gov. Jack Dalrymple says a distinction must be made because outlets that drain Devils Lake floodwaters into the Sheyenne are increasing the flood risk for the three cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota&#8217;s State Water Commission has approved about $1.3 million to begin engineering work on a $60 million project to protect Valley City, Lisbon and Fort Ransom from Sheyenne River flooding. The Sheyenne River Valley Flood Control Project will use a combination of property buyouts, floodwalls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21639","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=21639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21641,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21639\/revisions\/21641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}