A planned $2-billion flood-control project for the Fargo, N.D.-Moorhead, Minn., metro area allocates $5 million worth of construction funding from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in its 2016 work plan, said Terry Williams, corps project manager in St. Paul.
The sum is a small piece of the overall financing needed, but the Corps said it was a symbolic milestone for a project already under development for more than 10 years. “This is the most important funding this project has ever received—and probably ever will receive—because it is the first federal funding for construction,” Williams says. “All Corps activity, so far, has been in planning and engineering. Now, actual construction can begin.”