Fargo flood cleanup begins in earnest Wednesday 
FARGO – Say goodbye to levees and sandbags, at least for another year. Flood cleanup should begin in earnest here on Wednesday.
INFORUM, 05/06/2013
Local liquor shop protests planned Cash Wise location
FARGO – City Commissioner Brad Wimmer believes it’s time to change a “convoluted” city law that dictates where liquor stores can be located.
INFORUM, 05/05/2013
How Walaker, NWS stack up in predicting recent floods
FARGO - During the flood of 2011, Mayor Dennis Walaker put it simply. When it comes to flooding, he said, “Predictions bother me.”
INFORUM, 05/04/2013
Flood forecast fizzle won’t keep Fargo from relying on NWS
FARGO – It was a rough couple of weeks for the National Weather Service.
As spring took forever to bloom and snow kept falling, weather service forecasters warned in mid-April that there was a 40 percent chance of the Red River topping 2009’s record 40.84-foot crest.
INFORUM, 05/04/2013
Crest appears to hit 33.32 feet in Fargo
FARGO – The Red River on Wednesday hit an apparent crest in Fargo-Moorhead just above 33 feet and began its slow descent.
INFORUM, 05/01/2013
Hoeven says Senate will vote Monday on bill including diversion approval
FARGO – A federal bill that could authorize the $1.8 billion flood diversion project for Fargo-Moorhead is expected to reach the Senate floor Monday.
INFORUM, 05/01/2013
Red's crest prediction keeps dropping as Fargo's flood fight fizzles
FARGO – The city could be in flood cleanup mode as early as next week as the expected crest of the Red River continues to drop and the flood of 2013 fizzles away.
INFORUM, 04/29/2013
Sandbagging goes quickly as Fargo expects major but manageable flood; Red appears to crest in Wahpeton
FARGO – John Peterson watched as about 150 high school students stacked sandbags in his north Fargo neighborhood of Elm Circle, the icy river behind them finally flowing.
INFORUM, 04/27/2013
Forecasts tougher due to mystery beneath snow
Measuring how much melt sinks into soil an inexact scienceFARGO – The science of measuring how much of a spring snowmelt has sunk into soil – a crucial part of flood predictions – is far from perfect, and it’s one of the reasons forecasting the Red River’s rise has been difficult this year.
INFORUM, 04/25/2013
No firm crest prediction yet as Fargo flood fight set to begin
FARGO – Sandbagging efforts will begin here today as city leaders want to build levees up to 40 feet to prepare for a river crest late next week somewhere between 38 and 40 feet.
INFORUM, 04/25/2013
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