Implementing an $820M flood mitigation program
We helped Minot create resilience through multiple initiatives, all geared toward rebuilding stronger than ever.
Client
City of Minot
Location
Minot, North Dakota
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Building resilience, driving wiser development, and managing water resources
In June 2011, the Souris River exceeded the 500-year flood elevation, causing 4,100 flooded properties, 3,100 destroyed homes, and over 12,000 displaced residents, totaling over $600 million in loss and damage. City and community leaders knew their plans to recover and avoid future impacts needed to go well beyond traditional methods of fighting floods. We worked with Minot to create long-lasting changes throughout the city to prevent the impacts of flooding from recurring in the future.
Holding over 60 public collaboration meetings
Citizens up and down the Souris River basin had their voices heard as part of this effort.
Achieving teamwork across national borders
The Souris flows across the US/Canada border, and we helped bring together stakeholders from both nations.
Obtaining a $74M HUD resiliency grant
We helped Minot win a national competition for funding to protect the community in the future.
Throughout Minot’s journey of building back stronger, the value of collaboration has been the most important element of success. From banding together to sandbag against the floods, to working together to win competitions for funding, to sitting down together to evaluate alternatives with decision support tools, Minot and its partners are working collaboratively to create resiliency and build a stronger community. “Recovery from a disaster like this is takes the whole coalition working together,” says Schmidt. “But with the level of cooperation between local, state, federal and private partners, Minot’s recovery program has come to embody the true definition of resilience and has set the city on the track for success.”
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Client
City of Minot
Location
Minot, North Dakota