MINNEWAUKAN, N.D. (AP) -- Officials in Minnewaukan likely will have to wait until spring to start building the infrastructure in the area where a part of the town will be relocated to escape the rising Devils Lake.
David Miller with the Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration said an environmental assessment of the street, water and sewer project likely won't be completed until late January at the earliest.
Devils Lake has been expanding for nearly three decades because of wet weather, threatening the town. Many buildings already have been moved, along with a highway along the town's east edge. The Grand Forks Herald reported that the new subdivision about two miles from the water is to include a business district and a new school that already is under construction.
