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Fargo mayor favors levee for diversion project
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FARGO, N.D. (AP) _ Fargo Mayor Dennis Walaker is promoting a

plan to build a major levee around rural communities south of the

city that would be flooded out by a Red River diversion project.

The proposal calls for a 10-foot ring dike to be built around

Oxbow, Hickson and Bakke subdivision. It would protect some of

those residents from water stored in a staging area for the

diversion.

Walaker says the cost of the levee would be comparable to the

cost of home buyouts that are currently part of the diversion plan.

The mayor says the Army Corps of Engineers seems to be

interested in the idea and recently released a conceptual drawing

of the plan.

Oxbow Mayor Jim Nyhoff tells KFGO radio it's too early for him

to comment on the plan.