Jamestown Emergency Declaration Issued

Posted By: Steve Urness
June 21, 2025 @ 2:03 pm
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JAMESTOWN, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – The City of Jamestown experienced severe weather Friday, June 20, 2025, and Saturday June 21, 2025, affecting the City of Jamestown and in the greater Jamestown area.

The City experienced a significant rain fall event with severe winds resulting in structural damage by fallen trees.

The City of Jamestown is experiencing power loss for some of its critical functions, including the City’s lift stations and pump stations affecting its ability to efficiently collect, treat and provide water and to provide mobility throughout the City and provide essential functions.

Due to the storm, storm water has placed additional strain on the City’s infrastructure. It is necessary to take emergency measures in order to preserve the critical functions, ensuring mobility of the City in order to protect the public health, safety, and welfare of the city of Jamestown.

Sections 2-56 and 2-57, Article VII, of the Jamestown Municipal Code authorize the Mayor to declare an emergency where in the judgment of the Mayor, an emergency to include a threat posed within the corporate limits, is deemed to exist that threatens the destruction of property, the critical functions of the City’s water system and extraordinary measures must be taken to protect the public health, safety, and welfare.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that I, Dwaine Heinrich, Mayor of the City of Jamestown, do hereby find that the City is in danger of suffering if the City does not take action to preserve the City’s functions and proclaim that an emergency exists in the City of Jamestown. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, for the next 5 days expiring on June 26, 2025, persons who are not licensed arborists may engage in tree waste removal, providing that the trees or logs have fallen on the ground which do not pose a risk of structural or personal injury. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that I hereby authorize departments of the City, in concert with local, state, and federal government agencies, to take action to limit hardships of this emergency upon the citizens of Jamestown.