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By Warren Strandell – Polk County Commissioner, Dist. 2 IT HAS BEEN A NON-EVENT That’s what construction of a dike that provides up to 60 feet of protection will do. For the people of East Grand Forks, the flood of 2019, which ranks as the eighth highest in history (46.87 feet), hardly got anyone’s real […]
Help celebrate RiverView 2020, RiverView’s hospital and clinic replacement project, by attending the groundbreaking ceremony Thursday, April 25. The public is invited to gather in the Minnesota Room, 323 South Minnesota Street, at 10:00 a.m. to listen to RiverView and community representatives talk about the project before shovels are turned. Refreshments will be served. Construction
The National Weather Service announced today that they have determined the Red Lake River crested in Crookston Monday evening at 24.66 feet. The river has dropped two feet since then to 22.65 feet at 11:30 a.m. today. The 24.66-foot crest is the 11th highest crest on record in Crookston. The Crookston Emergency Operations Center (EOC)
The Red Lake Watershed District will close the Schirrick Dam gates on the Black River at 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 10. This is being done as a measure to reduce flood flows and stages downstream on the Red Lake River and the Red River of the North. Owners of property within the reservoir are
Crookston and the KROX listening area along with portions of northwest Minnesota and northeast North Dakota are in a flood warning. The National Weather Service in Grand Forks has issued a flood warning for Crookston and the Red Lake River from Sunday morning until further notice. At 9:45 a.m. Thursday the Red Lake River had
With temperatures forecasted to reach 50 degrees as early as Saturday, the Polk County Commissioners Tuesday signed a resolution declaring a state of emergency in Polk County in anticipation of increased snowmelt and runoff. The commissioners, who meet the first, third and fourth Tuesday of each month are not scheduled to meet for another two
