FARGO-MOORHEAD – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awards a $10.1 million contract to BCSS, LLC. of Tempe, Arizona to complete the southern embankment portion of the Fargo-Moorhead Area Diversion.
The Southern Embankment Reach portion is in Clay County, Minnesota and will reconstruct about two miles of 180th Avenue South from U.S. Highway 75 to just east of Wolverton Creek. The project includes removing portions of the existing road embankment and replacing it with a soil-cement mixture overlain by aggregate. This will allow the road to withstand overtopping during extreme flood events. The work also includes replacing concrete culverts through 180th Avenue South at Wolverton Creek.
This is the seventh and final contract planned to construct the embankments associated with the Southern Embankment. This congressionally authorized project is a 30 mile long diversion channel in North Dakota with upstream staging. The plan includes a 21-mile-long southern embankment and three gated control structures.
The diversion provides flood risk reduction for nearly 260,000 people and 70 square miles in Clay County, Minnesota and Cass County, North Dakota.
