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<blockquote data-quote="lunkerslayer" data-source="post: 97486" data-attributes="member: 217"><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'">All the inlets which flow into the basin have been widened as well as deepen back in the 50 and the 60s Then in the 80s we hit a dry cycle for about a decade or so west of graham's island was grazing land and cat tails. The only man made channel that was dug was channel A to allow water from the Coulee to flow into Devils Lake. Now on the other side the mauvais Coulee was actually dammed of in two different places one is just north of hwy 19 mauvais Coulee bridge and the other was on Lake Alice for irrigation for the surrounding crops. The whole design of the Devils Lake basin was to allow farmers to help drain wetlands farther north into the basin north east of Devils Lake the Elmore and the starkweather Coulee flow into Morrison, Sweetwater, and then into caveneau like. The Corp, farmers, and the state wanted the water for Devils Lake tourism, finally was supposed to be apart of the bigger garrison diversion-Mcclusky canal. The canal would flow into Devils Lake since it is its own watershed. The water would naturally filter though a neutral water system and eventually flow into the red River for eastern development. The problem is we ran out of oil money in the 70s to keep paying for construction as well as legal fees. we won every major lawsuit at the time from farmers to international treaties. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'">Now the new pipeline that is proposed to link the Missouri River to Eastern ND would never touch natural ground it would be transferred through a system of pipe along the state hwy 94 to the adjacent cities. At least that is what I have read from past articles.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lunkerslayer, post: 97486, member: 217"] [SIZE=2][FONT=times new roman]All the inlets which flow into the basin have been widened as well as deepen back in the 50 and the 60s Then in the 80s we hit a dry cycle for about a decade or so west of graham's island was grazing land and cat tails. The only man made channel that was dug was channel A to allow water from the Coulee to flow into Devils Lake. Now on the other side the mauvais Coulee was actually dammed of in two different places one is just north of hwy 19 mauvais Coulee bridge and the other was on Lake Alice for irrigation for the surrounding crops. The whole design of the Devils Lake basin was to allow farmers to help drain wetlands farther north into the basin north east of Devils Lake the Elmore and the starkweather Coulee flow into Morrison, Sweetwater, and then into caveneau like. The Corp, farmers, and the state wanted the water for Devils Lake tourism, finally was supposed to be apart of the bigger garrison diversion-Mcclusky canal. The canal would flow into Devils Lake since it is its own watershed. The water would naturally filter though a neutral water system and eventually flow into the red River for eastern development. The problem is we ran out of oil money in the 70s to keep paying for construction as well as legal fees. we won every major lawsuit at the time from farmers to international treaties. [/FONT] [FONT=times new roman]Now the new pipeline that is proposed to link the Missouri River to Eastern ND would never touch natural ground it would be transferred through a system of pipe along the state hwy 94 to the adjacent cities. At least that is what I have read from past articles.[/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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