MINOT, N.D. (AP) _ The Minot City Council has decided not to scale back a proposed $543 million flood protection plan for the city that was devastated by historic Souris River flooding in 2011.
Te council on Monday night voted unanimously to move ahead with a plan of levees, flood walls and diversions to protect the city to a river flow of 27,400 cubic feet per second, which marked the record flood.
Engineers who analyzed projects that would protect to a lesser river flow concluded that cost savings would be 6 percent or less.
The Souris River flooded more than 4,000 homes, businesses and other structures in Minot in the summer of 2011.