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Published March 17, 2010, 07:46 AM

Beulah leaders vote no on levee

The Beulah City Council has voted to not accept an offer from the Army Corps of Engineers to build a temporary levee to protect homes from flooding on the south side of the western North Dakota city.

BEULAH, N.D. (AP) — The Beulah City Council has voted to not accept an offer from the Army Corps of Engineers to build a temporary levee to protect homes from flooding on the south side of the western North Dakota city.

The unanimous vote Monday came after a public meeting last Thursday in which some residents objected to the plan.

Last spring, the Knife River flooded about 80 homes on Beulah’s south side. Mayor Darrell Bjerke says the corps this year said it would build a $2.6 million levee but the city would have to pay to tear it down after the flood threat passed.

Bjerke says the cost is prohibitive. He also says city officials feared legal problems if the dike was built and some homes still flooded.

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