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Published November 09, 2012, 02:42 PM

Oxbow has 13 conditions before allowing ring dike

Officials in Oxbow have compiled a list of 13 conditions that must be met before the town will accept a ring dike around it to save it from being flooded by a planned Red River diversion project around Fargo-Moorhead.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Officials in Oxbow have compiled a list of 13 conditions that must be met before the town will accept a ring dike around it to save it from being flooded by a planned Red River diversion project around Fargo-Moorhead.

The Forum newspaper reports that one of the demands is that the community's golf course be redesigned and constructed to ensure 18 holes are protected within a levee.

Cass County Administrator Keith Berndt says one demand that might not sit well with the Corps of Engineers is that property owners not willing to reside within a levee be given buyouts.

Separately, the corps on Thursday announced that the current channel alignment for the $2 billion diversion will be west of the existing Sheyenne River Diversion, rather than absorbing that channel.

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