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Date:   Wednesday, Feb. 23
Time:  6:00 to 7:00 PM
Place:  The Eagles Center, 3502 S. University Dr.

This meeting will be to discuss the clay levee construction for what we hope is our last flood fight in Timberline and other items related to this year’s flood fight.

Just a reminder that we just need to collect a few more right to enter forms and we will be good to proceed.

There have been a couple questions about the stakes from Houston Engineering – those that are the closest to your homes, from my understanding,  are considered the extreme extent of the clear zone for trees when the final levee is built next summer.  Certainly, existing trees that are close to these stakes will be looked at, closer to the permanent levee construction time next summer.  Needless to say that if any trees are moved or new plantings, nothing should be placed past those stakes.

Please call with any questions and I will try to get them answered as soon as possible.

Thanks,

Dave Helland

701-241-1557

COPIED FROM SHANNON 

During the Tuesday, February 08, 2011 flood meeting the city presented a plan that would place a clay levee along the coulee (east side) in Timberline.  This levee would be built to a flood protection level of 44 feet.  Those residents that would be affected are those whose backyards border the creek. 

Maps indicating the placement of these levees can be found at the links below.

• Timberline Emergency Levee Map
    
• Timberline Area

In order for the city to implement this proposed plan, consent waivers need to be signed prior to any work being performed.   The consent waivers can be found here 2011 Consent Form. 

A neighborhood meeting with city representatives is going to be scheduled for one day next week.  Once the date and location within the neighborhood are chosen I will send out a message.  Consent forms can be turned in at this meeting.

The flood meeting has been scheduled for this Monday at 7 pm at Ken/LuAnn Regan’s house (4336 Timberline Drive).  Dave Helland will be in attendance and will have consent forms for people to sign.  The two main topics of discussion will be (1) identification of areas that need to be protected to 40′ and (2) the method of construction (e.g. sandbags, large sandbags, and/or Hescoes).

For those of you who could not attend the March 2nd meeting with the City of Fargo, you can view a PDF of the City’s presentation at http://media.cityoffargo.com/download/download.aspx?FileID=64.  The presentation was very informative and laid out how the City of Fargo intends to protect the City and Timberline.  Everyone appears to feel confident in the City’s planning.

CLAY DIKE ON SOUTH SIDE.  One important decision by the City was to place a clay dike along the entire south side of Timberline along the bike path instead of using Heskos/sandbags. 

SANDBAG DIKE ON EAST SIDE.  However, the City has decided to not use Heskos along the east side of Timberline and instead we will have to build a sandbag dike along most of the east side (except for the coulee crossings which will have clay dikes similar to last year).  This will require us to put in place a lot more sandbags than we did last year, but because of the uneven terrain the sandbag dike will be a lot stronger.