A contractor for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, is preparing to start construction activities on the diversion inlet structure, near Horace, North Dakota, this week.
The contractor, Ames Construction, Inc., from Burnsville, Minnesota, is mobilizing equipment to the site to conduct pre-construction investigations.
The diversion inlet structure is a part of the Fargo, North Dakota/Moorhead, Minnesota, flood risk management project.
The complete Fargo-Moorhead flood risk management project plan includes building a 30-mile earthen channel, a 12-mile long southern embankment, 19 highway bridges, four railroad bridges, three gated control structures and two aqueduct structures.
This project will provides flood risk reduction for more than 230,000 people and 70 square miles of infrastructure in the communities of Fargo, Moorhead, West Fargo, Horace and Harwood.
The Corps is working in partnership on this project with the cities of Fargo, North Dakota, and Moorhead, Minnesota, and the Metro Diversion Authority.
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