Army Corps of Engineers Develops Red River Valley Flood Plan

摘要

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is working on a 10-year project to make the flooding that has afflicted the valley of the Red River of the North a thing of the past. The spring of 1997 brought one of the worst floods in the valley's history, combining massive snowmelt with a spring blizzard. The cities of Grand Forks, North Dakota, and East Grand Forks, Minnesota—separated by the Red River of the North—were among the hardest hit by the flood, which caused the evacuation of 60,000 residents and roughly $1 billion in damage.