{"id":25340,"date":"2013-08-16T11:30:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T16:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=25340"},"modified":"2013-08-16T11:30:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T16:30:27","slug":"canadians-tour-devils-lake-sheyenne-rvr-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=25340","title":{"rendered":"Canadians Tour Devils Lake, Sheyenne Rvr Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Canada&#8217;s top diplomat in the Upper Midwest has gotten a firsthand look at the chronic flooding in the Devils Lake region.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCounsel General Jamshed Merchant spent Thursday touring the area, learning about the 20-year flood that has covered thousands of acres of farmland and cost more than $1.5 billion to mitigate.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Canada is interested in the flooding because excess lake water that is now drained by man-made outlets flows into the Sheyenne River and ultimately the Red River, which flows north into Manitoba. Canadians want to ensure there is no harm to their waters.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Merchant was named to his post in Minneapolis in October. The North Dakota State Water Commission gave him the daylong tour, with stops all around Devils Lake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Canada&#8217;s top diplomat in the Upper Midwest has gotten a firsthand look at the chronic flooding in the Devils Lake region. \u00a0 Counsel General Jamshed Merchant spent Thursday touring the area, learning about the 20-year flood that has covered thousands of acres of farmland and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25340","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\/25340","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=25340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25341,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25340\/revisions\/25341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}