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  • Missions Ramp Up in Valley City as Baldhill Dam Increases Releases

    With releases from the Baldhill Dam expected to hit record levels this afternoon, folks throughout Valley City scrambled to reinforce levees that were high enough to withstand this week's crest. Now, they're facing a second crest that will become the city's historic record, topping the 2009 mark of

  • All Quiet on the Northern Flood Front -- For Now

    Despite a thick blanket of heavy wet snow and more on the way Friday, Staff Sgt. Eric J. Carlson wasn't too concerned the added precipitation would worsen the local flooding situation.Carlson, a volunteer levee patroller with the North Dakota National Guard's Charlie Battery of the 1st Battalion,

  • Ghanaians Get Up-Close Look at How North Dakota Guard Handles Flooding

    The 91-degrees-and-humid African country of Ghana and the snow-still-falling-in-April state of North Dakota may, at first blush, seem to have very little in common. There's more to the partnership between the two entities than one might imagine, though."Ghana has the same kind of disasters we have

  • Guard’s Quick Response Force Protects Kindred Home

    A National Guard quick response force team responded in Kindred this afternoon to protect a home from rising water of the nearby Sheyenne River. The team of Airmen and Soldiers from the North Dakota National Guard arrived at the farmstead of Harlan Smeby shortly after getting the call for help. "The

  • Guard Begins Quick Reaction Force Mission in Valley City

    Within one day of setting up flood duty operations, North Dakota National Guard's Task Force-West was called to respond with their Quick Reaction Force (QRF) to reinforce a small dam that had a weak spot in the levee system out along the Sheyenne River, and pack sandbags around a second levee that