St. Paul District News Releases

Corps of Engineers set to reroute the Red River through control structure

Press Operations — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 17:13:39 GMT

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, contractor Ames Construction will reroute the Red River of the North through the Red River Control Structure August 7.

Corps of Engineers celebrates the completion of its Drayton Dam project

Press Operations — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 12:35:00 GMT

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, will celebrate the completion of its Drayton Dam Fish Passage Mitigation Project with a dedication ceremony at 1 p.m., Sept. 25, at the site of the dam near Drayton, North Dakota.

Corps awards $42.2 million contract for the Fargo-Moorhead diversion project

Press Operations — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 14:06:23 GMT

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, awarded a $42.2 million contract to R.J. Zavoral & Sons, Inc. of East Grand Forks, Minnesota, yesterday, March 11, to complete the Southern Embankment Reach SE-2B portion of the Fargo, North Dakota/Moorhead, Minnesota, Metropolitan Area Flood Risk Management Project, which is also known as the FM Area Diversion.

Corps awards $13.2 million contract for the Fargo-Moorhead diversion project

Press Operations — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 16:16:06 GMT

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, awarded a $13.2 million contract to HSG Park Joint Venture 2, LLC of Harvey, North Dakota, yesterday, Feb. 27, to complete the Southern Embankment Reach SE-1B portion of the Fargo, North Dakota/Moorhead, Minnesota, Metropolitan Area Flood Risk Management Project, which is also known as the FM Area Diversion.

Corps awards $12.8 million contract for Oxbow-Hickson-Bakke ring levee project

Press Operations — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 14:03:06 GMT

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, awarded a $12.8 million contract to Hendrickson Transportation, LLC, of Hamburg, Iowa, yesterday, Feb. 22, to complete the Oxbow-Hickson-Bakke Ring Levee portion of the Fargo, North Dakota/Moorhead, Minnesota, Metropolitan Area Flood Risk Management Project, also known as the FM Area Diversion.

Corps seeks comments on draft Supplemental Environmental Assessment for the Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Area Flood Risk Management Project

Press Operations — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 14:09:04 GMT

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, posted a copy of its draft Supplemental Environmental Assessment, or SEA, and Draft Clean Water Act Section 404(b)(1) Evaluation Supplement for the Fargo, North Dakota / Moorhead, Minnesota, Metropolitan Area Flood Risk Management project online for public comment today.

Warren, Minnesota, resident receives national engineering award

Press Operations — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 16:18:00 GMT

Roy Lawson of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, was selected as the 2023 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers National Hard Hat of the Year recipient.

Corps celebrates the opening of Interstate 29 south of Exit 50

Press Operations — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 14:28:50 GMT

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, along with the Metro Flood Diversion Authority and the North Dakota Department of Transportation, announced that the Interstate-29, or I-29, construction in the Oxbow, Hickson, and Bakke area has finished work on all lanes of traffic. The Corps is opening both the northbound and southbound lanes, today, in addition to all ramps that access the Interstate in this area.

USACE project receives National Academy of Construction award

Press Operations — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 13:40:00 GMT

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Area Flood Risk Management Project has been selected as the recipient of the National Academy of Construction Recognition of Special Achievement Award.

Corps announces county road closures for I-29 grade raise project

Press Operations — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 16:27:13 GMT

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, along with the Metro Flood Diversion Authority and the North Dakota Department of Transportation, will resume construction on the Interstate 29 road raise next week.

Fargo-Moorhead project team receives national Corps of Engineers’ award

Press Operations — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 19:39:12 GMT

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Headquarters, in Washington, D.C., recently named the St. Paul District Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Area Flood Risk Management Project Delivery Team as its “USACE 2022 Project Delivery Team of the Year for Excellence.”

Corps awards a $7.7 million contract to construct a fish passage at Drayton Dam

Press Operations — Fri, 20 May 2022 14:02:46 GMT

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, awarded a $7.7 million contract to HSG Park Joint Venture, LLC, of Harvey, North Dakota, to complete a fish passage structure at Drayton Dam, located around 60 miles north of Grand Forks, North Dakota, on the Red River of the North.

Corps of Engineers awards its largest contract for the Fargo-Moorhead diversion project

Press Operations — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 13:26:26 GMT

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, awarded a $115 million contract late yesterday to Ames Construction, Inc., of Burnsville, Minnesota, to construct the Red River Control Structure portion of the Fargo, North Dakota/Moorhead, Minnesota, Metropolitan Area Flood Risk Management Project, or FM Area Diversion.

Corps announces county road closures for I-29 grade raise project

Press Operations — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 18:16:19 GMT

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, along with the Metro Flood Diversion Authority and the North Dakota Department of Transportation, will be closing multiple roads associated with the I-29 grade raise project. These road closures are expected to begin around April 1 and continue through the summer.

Fargo-Moorhead diversion project receives $437 million in Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act plan

Press Operations — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 16:29:00 GMT

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, received $437 million to complete work on the Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Flood Risk Management Project in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, or IIJA, Plan released today.

Senior Army official visited Fargo-Moorhead flood project today

Press Operations — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 19:47:00 GMT

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.

Corps of Engineers celebrates the contractor selection of the first public-private partnership for a civil works project

Press Operations — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 22:25:00 GMT

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, is celebrating the Metro Flood Diversion Authority’s contractor selection of a public-private partnership today to the Red River Valley Alliance, Corporaciόn Acciona Infraestructuras S.L

Corps of Engineers to host open house for the 1-29 grade raise project

Press Operations — Wed, 19 May 2021 19:37:55 GMT

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Metro Flood Diversion Authority and the North Dakota Department of Transportation invite the community to attend an open house to learn more about the upcoming I-29 grade raise project May 26, 5-8 p.m. at the Hickson Community Center in Hickson, North Dakota.

Corps awards a $2.2 million contract for the Fargo-Moorhead diversion project

Press Operations — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 13:36:01 GMT

ST. PAUL, Minn. –The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, awarded a $2.2 million contract to Tunheim Construction LLC of Fargo, North Dakota, to complete the Southern Embankment Reach SE-1 portion of the Fargo, North Dakota/Moorhead, Minnesota, Metropolitan Area Flood Risk Management Project.

Corps to host virtual Fargo-Moorhead industry day for perspective contractors

Press Operations — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 20:51:23 GMT

ST. PAUL, Minn. –The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, will host a virtual Fargo, N.D. / Moorhead, Minn., industry day March 9, starting at 8:30am.