Lamoure County News

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Spring floodwaters have long since receded in southeastern North Dakota, but not everyone who was displaced has been able to return home.

That's a reference, of course, to the movie Fargo , set partly in North Dakota, not far from the small city of Edgeley in LaMoure County, where 16-year-old Harman Singh was an exchange student until May 16, when he apparently tried to make it on his own.

An exchange student from India who vanished from southeastern North Dakota more than a week ago is safe.

Superintendent Rick Diegel says the boy left goodbye notes in the lockers of four students, and had obviously planned his disappearance.

Authorities are investigating whether a teenage exchange student from India who vanished from southeastern North Dakota might have travelled to Canada, or whether a cell phone message saying he was headed north was just a ruse to send searchers in the wrong direction.

Three options for dealing with the high waters behind the Jamestown and Pipestem dams are under consideration by the Army Corps of Engineers.

LaMoure County residents affected by the flooding that began March 13 can now seek assistance from the Disaster Recovery Center.

A flood assistance informational meeting for LaMoure County is at 5:30 p.m. Thursday in the large gym at the LaMoure School, 510 Second St.

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National Guard officials say the erosion has increased around a LaMoure County dam.

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LT. COL. RICK SMITH, A GUARD SPOKESMAN, SAYS RIPRAP, SANDBAGS AND ROCK WERE USED AFTER THE SPILLWAY EROSION INCREASED.

Valley City officials are trying to hold down traffic in the city while they fix a broken sewer system and wait for the Sheyenne River to retreat.

Crews worked in strong winds to reinforce a southeastern North Dakota dam spillway that was being eroded by flood waters Sunday, and nearby farms were evacuated as a precaution.

The earthen Cottonwood Creek Dam at Lake LaMoure is about 20 miles from the nearest community and its greatest threat is to farms and roads, State Water Commission assistant engineer Todd Sando said. A Black Hawk helicopter from Fargo dropped about 80 1-ton sandbags, and bulldozers pushed rock into the spillway.

'It's stable right now but it's not under control,' Sando said at mid-afternoon. 'Right now, we've got lots of wind that's blowing a lot of water, making big waves. I'd feel a lot better if the wind dies down.'

THE GUARD SAYS LAMOURE COUNTY ASKED FOR HELP LATE SATURDAY NIGHT. THE GUARD SAYS MORE THAN 100 1-TON SANDBAGS HAVE BEEN DROPPED, AND BULLDOZERS HAVE BEEN PUSHING ROCK INTO THE SPILLWAY.

The North Dakota National Guard says it's working to reinforce an emergency spillway near the Cottonwood Creek Dam at Lake LaMoure.

The North Dakota Department of Transportation closed Highway 13 west of LaMoure, N.D. Monday, according to Sheri Gartner, LaMoure County director of emergency services.

LaMoure County officials are monitoring the emergency spillway at Lake LaMoure, approximately four miles south of the City of LaMoure, according to Sheri Gartner, LaMoure County director of emergency services.