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<blockquote data-quote="PrairieGhost" data-source="post: 97491" data-attributes="member: 704">I drove the road from Minnewaukan to Grahams Island most of the time.&nbsp; Actually when I started going out there you could not see water from that road.&nbsp; Then it flooded and everyone trolled along it and called it &quot;The Golden Highway&quot;.&nbsp; &nbsp;Do you mean Devils Lake is it's own watershed?&nbsp; It is until overflow then it becomes Hudson Bay watershed.&nbsp; It is not in the same watershed as the Missouri.&nbsp; Somewhere they would have to pump and cross the Sheyenne River from McClusky canal.&nbsp; Crazy idea with 1940 technology that they didn't want to give up.&nbsp; I remember the big dreams when this all started and the farmers thought they would be shipping grain by barge down the canal.&nbsp; If I remember right it would have been a net loss for production since so little land is good for irrigation (porous enough for flushing leaving it susceptible to alkaline build up), and it flooded the lower fertile land.&nbsp; Oaks was a prime area for the irrigation.&nbsp; Our soils make the canal a poor idea and the McClusky canal already requires extensive repair often.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="PrairieGhost, post: 97491, member: 704"] I drove the road from Minnewaukan to Grahams Island most of the time. Actually when I started going out there you could not see water from that road. Then it flooded and everyone trolled along it and called it "The Golden Highway". Do you mean Devils Lake is it's own watershed? It is until overflow then it becomes Hudson Bay watershed. It is not in the same watershed as the Missouri. Somewhere they would have to pump and cross the Sheyenne River from McClusky canal. Crazy idea with 1940 technology that they didn't want to give up. I remember the big dreams when this all started and the farmers thought they would be shipping grain by barge down the canal. If I remember right it would have been a net loss for production since so little land is good for irrigation (porous enough for flushing leaving it susceptible to alkaline build up), and it flooded the lower fertile land. Oaks was a prime area for the irrigation. Our soils make the canal a poor idea and the McClusky canal already requires extensive repair often. [/QUOTE]

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