Flood Control Projects and Protection

Fargo has experienced and successfully survived eight moderate to severe floods since 1969.  During each of these events, it has been necessary for the city to mount an extensive effort to fight flood water. 

Flood fighting efforts have been skillfully planned out by city engineers in a detailed Fargo Flood Protection Plan. The plan includes such activities as building temporary earth levees, building temporary sandbag levees, providing temporary pumping and other measures to protect homes and sewer systems (storm and sanitary).  

Projects

The Ridgewood Flood Control Project is a large part of Fargo's overall flood mitigation plan. It presents a permanent solution for the protection of the Ridgewood area from floodwaters that exceed a 100-year flood event.

Since the record-setting spring flood of 1997, Cass County and the City of Fargo have worked together with Moore Engineering Inc. to assess and develop a permanent solution for South Side Flood Control Project along the Red and Wild Rice Rivers south of Fargo.