Rising Lake Puts Corps in Hot Water
The federal government has spent $350 million building levees and moving homes as a rising lake that has already drowned 20,000 acres of land threatens to start a historic flood.
North Dakota's Devils Lake is a closed basin with a rising water level that threatens to overflow causing a historic flood. The federal government has spent $350 million building levees and moving homes but the rising lake has already drowned 20,000 acres of land. The Army Corps of Engineers is studying a controversial proposal to create an emergency outlet for the rising water level.
Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan
Full Story:
Published on Monday, September 11, 2000 in
Topics
- Is There a Perfect Density?
- Six States Considered Laws to Make it Legal to Run Over Protestors This Year
- Aurora Rising
- The Most Effective Way to Reduce Employee Driving
- Corridors Are the Secret to Improving Transit in Small Cities
- When Men Control the Debate About the Future of Cities
- Five Big Ideas About the Future of Transportation and Land Use in Los Angeles
- The 'Steady Decline' of Suburban America
- Trump's Infrastructure Plan Slow to Materialize Despite New Executive Order, Flow Chart
- Congestion Pricing Finds New Life in New York City
- Average Commute Times Won't Change Because of the Hyperloop
- Gentrification and Controversy in the Bronx
- Trafalgar Square Shows How to Reuse Pedestals Where Statues Once Stood
- Copenhagen's Post-Industrial Adaptive Reuse
- The Trump Administration's Assault on Diversity Spreads to Housing Vouchers
- Night Mayors Come to America
- Friday Eye Candy: An Infographic for Every Transit Mode
- Is the Era of the 'Free' Freeway Coming to an End?
- A Montana College Town's Beer Economy
- High-Speed Rail Takes Steps Forward in Houston, Though Challenges Remain
