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Published March 17 2010

Photo gallery: Red River flood photos (March 17, 2010)


The rising Red River begins to swallow a stop sign Wednesday west of the Moorhead Center Mall. Michael Vosburg / Forum Photo Editor

  • The rising Red River begins to swallow a stop sign Wednesday west of the Moorhead Center Mall. Michael Vosburg / Forum Photo Editor
  • Jason Koehler, a neighbor, loads sandbags Wednesday in front of 17 South Terrace in north Fargo with the help of his children Katie, 8, left, and Sidney, 9. Michael Vosburg / Forum Photo Editor
  • Jr. Garcia, right, a junior at Fargo North, hands a sandbag to Garth Teske Wednesday in front of Teske's neighbor's home on Woodcrest Drive North in Fargo. Michael Vosburg / Forum Photo Editor
  • Vickie Piepkorn hands a sandbag to Kevin Pladson with Roger Stadum to help protect their neighbor's home from the rising Red River Wednesday at 198 Woodcrest Drive North. Michael Vosburg / Forum Photo Editor
  • Fargo North juniors James Simonson and Abby Roache rest on a pallet of sandbags as they eat lunch while building sandbag levees Wednesday in North Fargo. Michael Vosburg / Forum Photo Editor
  • Moorhead's Woodlawn Park is flooded Wednesday by the Red River. Michael Vosburg / Forum Photo Editor
  • Tyler Amaya, left, a freshman and Moorhead High, fills a sandbag Wednesday for Lauren Enervold, a junior at Minnesota State University. while working in Oakport Township north of Moorhead. Michael Vosburg / Forum Photo Editor
  • Floodwaters of the Red River engulf a grove of trees Wednesday in Oakport Township north of Moorhead. Michael Vosburg / Forum Photo Editor
  • Cass County Sheriff Paul Laney addresses his work force Wednesday morning at the Red River Valley Fairgrounds in West Fargo. David Samson/The Forum
  • Cass County Deputy Greg Dawkins chats with Butch-R-Block resident Tom Read Wednesday morning south of Fargo. David Samson/The Forum
  • Cass County Deputy Loretta Orvdahl watches the Red River flow into the Oxbow Country Club Wednesday morning. David Samson/The Forum
  • Michael Neustel catches a sand bag being passed to him by Brandon Lettenmaier as they build a dike in the Timberline neighborhood Wednesday in Fargo. Dave Wallis / The Forum
  • Denise Mathern of Fargo passes a sand bag along as she works with other volunteers from Sanford Health and MeritCare Wednesday in the Copperfield Court area of Fargo. Dave Wallis / The Forum
  • Sand bags fill the driveway as Chris Austinson delivers a roll of plastic barrier to the pile Wednesday in the Copperfield Court area of Fargo. The home belongs to his father-in-law. Dave Wallis / The Forum
  • The forty-foot mark can be seen on a survey stake as volunteers take a breather from dike building Wednesday in the Timberline area of Fargo. Dave Wallis / The Forum
  • Friends and neighbors of R.D. Knutson join together Wednesday to sandbag his home in Briarwood. David Samson/The Forum
  • Backhoes dig out clay for dike building Wednesday in the borrow pit along South University. David Samson/The Forum
  • Shannon Bauer from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers tries to shake the clay from her boots Wednesday at the borrow pit on South University. David Samson/The Forum
  • Ava, Nathan and Samantha Zurn watch heavy equipment operators build a clay dike Wednesday through Rivershore Drive South in Moorhead. David Samson/The Forum
  • Dennis Olson of the 119th Civil Engineering Squad of the North Dakota National Guard tightens sections of an Aqua Fence water barrier that was installed Wednesday morning along the Red River between NP Avenue and First Avenue North in Fargo. A clay dike was also installed behind the fence that is being tested by Fargo as a precaution if the fence didn't hold. Fargo City Hall can be seen in the background. Dave Wallis / The Forum
  • Students from Northern Cass High School take a break for lunch near a truck that mentions water solutions after sand bagging in the Copperfield Court area Wednesday in Fargo. Dave Wallis / The Forum
  • A survey marking of 40.3 feet is marked on a sand bag Wednesday as homes are protected by volunteers in the Copperfield Court area of Fargo. Dave Wallis / The Forum
  • The Red River at left floods a neighborhood Wednesday south of Fargo. Michael Vosburg / Forum Photo Editor
  • The pedestrian bridge between Lindenwood Park, at bottom, and Gooseberry Mound Park is surrounded by floodwaters of the Red River. Michael Vosburg / Forum Photo Editor
  • Floodwaters encompass the expanse of bridges Wednesday between Moorhead, top, and Fargo. Michael Vosburg / Forum Photo Editor
  • The buildings of Mickelson Park, bottom, in north Fargo are surrounded by floodwater Wednesday. Michael Vosburg / Forum Photo Editor
  • The buildings of Mickelson Park, bottom, in north Fargo are surrounded by floodwater Wednesday. Michael Vosburg / Forum Photo Editor
  • Heavy equipment works in the slick clay as a dike is being built Wednesday alongside the south side of Rose Coulee in Fargo's Rose Creek neighborhood. Trucks dumped clay near 25th Street South which was then scooped up and loaded onto track-wheeled tractors where it was taken to the east to build the dike to protect homes on the south side of the golf course. Dave Wallis / The Forum
  • Nine-year-old Matthew Olson plays with a stick as he walks along the massive stockpile of filled sandbags in his Southwood Dr. S. neighborhood Wednesday afternoon in Fargo. Dave Wallis / The Forum