900 Signatures Say Save the Sheyenne

Posted By: Todd Ingstad
July 8, 2011 @ 2:29 pm
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a dozen people presented Mayor Bob Werkhoven with a petition asking the state to stop threatening Valley City and the Sheyenne River Valley with unnecessary damage by sending large amounts of water and poor quality water from Devils Lake down the Sheyenne River.

savesheyenne_001 — (Sharon Buhr presents Mayor Bob Werkhoven with the 900 signatures during a news conference in Valley City hall on Friday. Photos by Steve Urness.)

More than 900 petitioners are requesting that the Tolna Coulee be armored at 1458 feet above sea level with no water release structure.

savesheyenne_004 — Ad Hoc committee member and Valley City resident Mary Ann Sheets-Hanson says she is very concerned about the possibility of Devils Lake water flooding the city if nothing is done to armor the Tolna Coulee.)

No outlet be built on the east end of Devils Lake or Stump Lake due to high sulfate levels.
A moratorium be placed immediately on future upper basin drainage and the restoration of wetlands.
And release a comprehensive mitigation plan for downstream damage be in place and funded before the building of a new outlet.

savesheyenne_003 — (Spokeswoman Sharon Buhr says her group believes that the control structure with stop logs would only protect to a level of 1446 feet and not the 1458 feet of protection the state promised earlier this year. She says all of that water would run down the Sheyenne River.)

Spokeswoman Sharon Buhr says state officials have wasted two years by not ordering an Environmental Impact Study to determine the best way to solve the problem by hurting the fewest number of people downstream.

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