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Senior Army official visited Fargo-Moorhead flood project today

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District
Published July 22, 2021
A group of individuals visit a construction site. There is a crane and cement wall behind the individuals.

Jaime A. Pinkham (center), Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works and Acting Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, takes a tour of the Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Area Flood Risk Management Project July 22. Here he is visiting the projects diversion inlet structure located near Horace, N.D.

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, and Metro Flood Diversion Authority hosted Jaime A. Pinkham, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works and Acting Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, in Fargo, North Dakota, today to tour the Fargo, N.D. /Moorhead, Minn., flood risk management project.

he purpose of Pinkham's visit was to tour the Fargo-Moorhead flood risk management project currently under construction. While in Fargo, Pinkham met with Corps of Engineers and Diversion Authority officials and received a status update on the project.

Pinkham is responsible for establishing policy direction and supervising the Department of the Army functions relating to all aspects of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Civil Works program. These responsibilities include programs for conservation and development of the nation's water and wetland resources, flood control, navigation and aquatic ecosystem restoration.

The Fargo-Moorhead flood risk management project involves the construction of a 36-mile long diversion channel located in North Dakota that will direct floodwater around the Fargo-Moorhead metropolitan area. The project will temporarily store up to 200,000 acre-feet of flood water immediately upstream of the diversion channel inlet to minimize downstream impacts.

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Release no. 21-064