While Crookston has been hit by the rising waters from the Red Lake River, the rest of Polk County has received a lot of overland flooding and river flooding. 
Throughout the county, many roads are damaged or washed out from the rushing waters, mainly on the Township roads. Over 20 Townships have been affected by the rising waters and over 50 sites had water come over the roads or damaged. After Crookston was affected by the river flooding on Saturday, the County submitted a State of Emergency to the Governor and requested the National Guard, which was granted and requested the help of the Salvation Army to give food and drinks to the flood volunteers. Polk County Social Services in collaboration with American Red Cross, created the Emergency Shelter at the Crookston Sports Center. One of the biggest helping forces to Crookston was Polk County Highway trucks transporting sandbags from the City of Moorhead to help build dikes.
Crookston and Fisher were the main focuses of the National Guard and City Services as there are mainly the areas that are still recovering from flooding or currently trying to stop flooding.
While there are current efforts to maintain the floodwaters, the County is aware of upcoming weather potentially dropping more precipitation on the County. “I’ve been in contact with Grand Forks Emergency Director, Jeff Boushee and as long as everything holds to what’s been predicted, he believes they’ll be in good shape and mitigate the high water from coming into the City,” said Polk County Emergency Management Director Jody Beauchane.
Beauchane compliments the public and the many organizations and groups that volunteered to help control the river flooding both here in Crookston and in other townships in Polk County. “What the public is doing right now is awesome. Everyone is working together and we have quite the team,” said Beauchane. “At the moment, if we keep the volunteers we have right now, I think we’ll be in a good position. Especially when we get done setting that levee the extra two feet higher in Fisher.” Beauchane also advises the public to keep track of their damages to have any damage compensated from the flooding. “All I would ask is for the public is for all the cities, townships, and watersheds to make sure they keep track of all of their damages, take a lot of photos, and keep track of their labor expenses to pay for everything,” said Beauchane. “Because depending on the other counties, this will be a State Declaration for sure but could be a FEMA Declaration, which would have to be done by the President of the United States.”
