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  • February

    Aerial photo of the flooded downtowns of Grand Forks, North Dakota, and East Grand Forks, Minnesota, on April 20, 1997. --USACE St. Paul District File Photo

    Memories linger of disaster at East Grand Forks/Grand Forks

    (first published in Crosscurrents Oct.-Nov. 2007 edition) The district, the locals, the volunteers –they all put up a tremendous fight, but ultimately the Red River of the North rose too high, too fast. And although it’s been 10 years since the spring flooding in the Red River Valley destroyed much of Grand Forks, N.D., and East Grand Forks, Minn., the sights, the sounds, the emotions of this event linger for those who were there. "I can still picture those breaches like it was yesterday,” said Neil Schwanz, a geo-tech engineer. “I can picture myself standing [there], watching all this happen.”

  • August

    Maj. Gen. John Peabody (right), Mississippi Valley Division commander, presented a National Water Safety award to Carma Hanson, Grand Forks Safe Kids coordinator. Also in the photo is Col. Dan Koprowski (left), St. Paul District commander, and the person who nominated Hanson for this award, Scott Tichy, St. Paul District park ranger.

    Corps of Engineers presents Grand Forks, N.D., resident with National Water Safety award

    Maj. Gen. John Peabody, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Mississippi Valley Division commander, presented Carma Hanson of Grand Forks Safe Kids a National Water Safety award on behalf of the National Water Safety Congress at the Grand Forks, N.D., airport July 31.