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Article: Damage kindles flood-control debate; As some call for major changes to better protect the Red River basin, others point to measures they say have reduced the threat.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- April 23, 1997
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Don Ogaard's 1,000-acre farm was inundated; several other irrigable tracts that he owns were swamped, and the flood on the Wild Rice River had backed up 6 feet of sewage into the basement of his home in Ada, Minn.
The damage to his house alone is about $30,000, he estimates.
However, Ogaard isn't adding his voice to those calling for major changes in flood-control programs in the Red River basin. He is especially irked at the idea of restoring extensive wetlands to store water, contending that it would increase flood damage.
Indeed, he insists that the basin's present flood-control program, which relies heavily on big earthen dams and ...