{"id":42642,"date":"2014-04-02T15:21:51","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T20:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=42642"},"modified":"2014-04-02T15:43:43","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T20:43:43","slug":"combo-of-permanent-flood-protection-methods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=42642","title":{"rendered":"Combo Of Permanent Flood Protection Methods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/VCcomm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4142\" alt=\"VCcomm\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/VCcomm-300x202.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/VCcomm-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/VCcomm-259x175.png 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/VCcomm.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>VALLEY CITY, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Valley City is moving forward with its plans for permanent flood protection for the city.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The City Commission on Tuesday approved the plan for the project&#8217;s first phase. It includes a combination of clay dikes and flood walls in the Valley City State University area. Future phases would likely protect the majority of homes in the city.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mayor Bob Werkhoven says the first phase of construction is estimated to cost about $12 million. City officials expect to talk with the State Water Commission in the coming weeks to try and secure funding for the project.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Werkhoven says the city has bought out more than 40 homes already in flood-prone areas where permanent protection will go. He said there are still more homes the city plans to buy in the future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VALLEY CITY, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Valley City is moving forward with its plans for permanent flood protection for the city. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The City Commission on Tuesday approved the plan for the project&#8217;s first phase. It includes a combination of clay dikes and flood walls in the Valley City State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42642","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=42642"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42648,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42642\/revisions\/42648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}