ST. PAUL, Minn. -- 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.
Media are invited to start arriving at 8 a.m. with a program starting at 9 a.m. Following the program, attendees will be allowed to watch the river reroute and tour the construction site until 11a.m. The event will be held at the Red River Structure construction site, located south of Fargo at 4886 County Rd 81 S, Horace, North Dakota.
Rerouting the Red River will be a major milestone for the Fargo, North Dakota/Moorhead, Minnesota Flood Risk Management Project. This concrete control structure includes three 50-wide Tainter gates. It will be used to regulate flows into the Fargo-Moorhead metropolitan area.
The Corps of Engineers awarded a $115 million contract to Ames Construction, Inc., of Burnsville, Minnesota, March 16, 2022, to build this structure. It is one of three major structures and 22 miles of embankment associated with the Southern Embankment part of the Fargo/Moorhead flood risk management project.
It is important to note that the gated structures will not be used to control flooding until the entire diversion project is complete and approved for operation.
The Corps is working in partnership with the cities of Fargo and Moorhead and the Metro Flood Diversion Authority to build this project, which will provide flood risk management for nearly 260,000 people and 70 square miles of infrastructure in the communities of Fargo, Moorhead, West Fargo, Horace and Harwood.
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Release no. 25-060