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SPRING 2015 NEW LOOK!
Biannual newsletter created for Houston Engineering, Inc.'s clients and employees
PRESERVING THE "MAGIC" IN THE MAGIC CITY OF MINOT Every community eventually faces a"MAGIC" challenge that rocks its very foundation. PRESERVING THE IN THE For the City of Minot, the challenge came with the 2011 flood. MAGIC CITY OF MINOT
Floods have threatened Minot since founding. In the firstits half of the 20th Every community, big or small, must faceits events that challenge citizens and Century, floodwaters destroyed homes, damaged infrastructure, and disrupted shake its foundations. For the City of Minot, the 2011 Mouse River flood proved peoples’ lives andone wellbeing. ago, the City worked with the US Army beyond a doubt to be of thoseLong events. Corps of Engineers (USACE) to create permanent and lasting flood protection. Minot, located on the banks of the Mouse River in north central North Dakota, has Forbeen years, the projects protectedFor theyears, City from up towas 100-year floodfrom events— always threatened by flooding. the City protected floods typically once-in-a-lifetime occurrences. But in 2011, the City faced a flood on the Mouse River thanks to previous flood protection projects. But in 2011, thethat comes not once in a lifetime, but once or twice in a millennium. It was the type City faced a flood of unpredictable levels. It was the type of disaster the community of disaster a community has little means of preventing and even poorer means had little means of predicting and even poorer means of protecting against. of predicting. CONTINUED ON ON PAGE PAGE 22 CONTINUED
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