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The city of Fargo, North Dakota faces very similar flooding challenges to Winnipeg due to its similar topography and position upstream of the Red River. In 2008, the US Army Corps of Engineers began a feasibility study of flood mitigation techniques for the area. [ 19 ]
The 1950 Red River flood was a devastating flood that took place along the Red River in The Dakotas and Manitoba from April 15 to June 12, 1950. Damage was particularly severe in the city of Winnipeg and its environs, which were inundated on May 5, also known as Black Friday to some residents.
Even with these flood protection measures, in 1997 the province had a flood cresting at 21.6 ft (6.6 m). It caused 28,000 people to be evacuated and $500 million CAD in damage to property and infrastructure. [15] [16] The 1997 flood was a 100-year flood. It came close to overwhelming Winnipeg's existing flood protection system. [17]
The Red River flood of 1997 in the United States was a major flood that occurred in April 1997, along the Red River of the North in North Dakota and Minnesota.The flood reached throughout the Red River Valley, affecting the cities of Fargo, Moorhead, and Winnipeg, while Grand Forks and East Grand Forks received the most damage, where floodwaters reached over 3 miles (5 km) inland, inundating ...
In Winnipeg, the flood crested at 24.5 feet (7.5 m) above datum at the James Avenue pumping station, making it the third-highest flood at Winnipeg in recorded history. It was surpassed by the floods of 1825, and 1826. The city was largely spared the fate of Grand Forks thanks to the Floodway, which was pushed to its capacity during the 1997 flood.
The flood came close to overcoming Winnipeg's existing flood protection system. [42] At the time, the Winnipeg Floodway was designed to protect against a flow 60,000 cu ft/s (1,700 m 3 /s), but the 1997 flow was 63,000 cu ft/s (1,800 m 3 /s). To compensate, the province broke operational rules for the floodway, as defined in legislation, during ...
[citation needed] 2011 flood levels on the Red River were below those of 2009. [citation needed] Officials said that if the flood controls had not been constructed in the 1960s and later along the Red and Assiniboine Rivers near Winnipeg, the cresting water level would have amounted to the sixth-highest water levels ever recorded in the city ...
Flooding in Manitoba was not expected until the second week of April. The CPR Line from Winnipeg to Emerson closed. The floodway was opened around 1 p.m. on April 8 due to a crest expected to hit the city of Winnipeg. Highway 75, a major artery between Winnipeg and the U.S. border, was closed between April 7 and May 13.