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    In Fiscal Year 2008, Federal funding was provided to begin construction of the Montevideo, Minn., flood risk management project. The project cooperation agreement was executed in August 2007 and the Stage 1 construction contract was awarded in September 2008. The Stage 2 construction contract was awarded in September 2010. To complete the project, a third stage of construction will be needed at full expense to the non-Federal sponsor, the city of Montevideo. Stage 3 will be split into two contracts. The total Federal project costs are limited to $7 million and have been expended.

    Continuing Authorities Program: Flood Risk Management – Section 205, Minnesota River, Montevideo, Minnesota

    Montevideo is located in Chippewa County in western Minnesota, approximately 130 miles west of St. Paul, Minnesota. The city is at the confluence of the Chippewa and Minnesota Rivers. The area is subject to flooding from both rivers. The three areas that are affected include the 1969 levee area, the Smith Addition and the U.S. Highway 212 area.

  • Continuing Authorities Program: Flood Risk Management – Section 205, Trempealeau River, Arcadia, Wisconsin

    Arcadia is located in Trempealeau County in west-central Wisconsin, approximately 130 miles southeast of St. Paul, Minnesota. The city is located on the Trempealeau River with Turton Creek and Meyers Valley Creek flowing through town. The area is subject to flooding from the river, as well as from both creeks. The part of town located south of the Trempealeau River is affected by flooding, which includes Ashley Furniture Industries corporate headquarters and manufacturing facility.
  • A major reach of the Sand Hill River downstream of Fertile, Minn., was the subject of a flood control project constructed by the Corps of Engineers from 1955 to 1958. It involved straightening the river and constructing four drop structures and served as a drainage improvement to local agriculture. Overall, more than 18 miles of the Sand Hill River was straightened or abandoned. The straightened channel decreased channel length, increased channel grade, increased channel conveyance, and reduced the flood profiles in the lower Sand Hill River watershed. A series of four concrete drop structures were installed in the new Sand Hill River alignment to provide grade control. These grade control structures created six to eight-foot changes in bed grade, but left the river itself impassable for spawning fish. A preliminary restoration plan completed in 2003 recommended several measures to improve fish passage in the river including construction of rock structures at each of the Corps drop structures in the river as well as installation of several riffles and pools to decrease the slope of the river and create areas for refuge and rest for migrating fish.

    Continuing Authorities Program: Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration – Section 1135, Sand Hill River

    The study area is located in a rural setting in Polk County, Minnesota, 275 miles northwest of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Sand Hill River basin is centrally located in the Red River Valley watershed. A major reach of the river downstream of Fertile, Minnesota, was the subject of a flood control project constructed by the Corps of Engineers from 1955 to 1958. It involved straightening the river and constructing several drop structures and served as a drainage improvement to local agriculture. Overall, more than 18 miles of the Sand Hill River was straightened or abandoned.

  • Continuing Authorities Program: Emergency Streambank Protection – Section 14, Crow River

    The study area is located in a rural setting in western Hennepin County, Minnesota, approximately 40 miles west of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Crow River, a tributary to the Mississippi River, was experiencing erosion on a reach north of the city of Delano, Minnesota, where the natural course of the river follows a sharp turn adjacent to County Road 50. Erosion at the outside bend of the channel and at the toe of the bank of the Crow River threatened the stability of County Road 50 at the top of the river bluff.

  • Continuing Authorities Program (CAP)

    Under the Continuing Authorities Program (CAP), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is authorized to plan, design and construct certain types of water resource and ecosystem restoration projects without additional and specific congressional authorization. The purpose is to implement projects of limited scope and complexity. Each authority has specific guidelines and total program and per-project funding limits. Studies are cost-shared 50/50 during feasibility. Most projects are cost-shared 65 percent Federal and 35 percent non-Federal during implementation, unless otherwise noted.