Red River Broadcasting is a television and radio broadcasting company based in Fargo, North Dakota, which operates a network of Fox affiliates in eastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota. The company also owns TV and radio stations in South Dakota and Minnesota. The radio division is known as Red Rock Radio.
Red River Broadcasting is currently owned by Myron Kunin of Minneapolis, Minnesota (85%), who founded Regis Corporation, and Romeo "Ro" Grignon of Ponsford, Minnesota
The 36-mile channel involves considerably more than just digging a big ditch, with some tricky engineering challenges that help explain why construction is expected to take nearly a decade.
As the channel splits from the river's main path and angles west of the city, it would cross three larger and two smaller tributaries.
It would pass underneath the Sheyenne and Maple rivers through some "extremely large culverts" while open channels — basically aqueducts — would carry the normal flows of those rivers above, said Aaron Snyder, a project manager with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in St. Paul, Minn. Another smaller river, the Wild Rice, would also require its own structure over the channel.
Upstream, a span resembling a highway bridge would have gates that would be lowered during high water to make the diversion.
Construction alone would take 8½ years, and that's just from when the corps gets funding and starts digging. More time will be needed to acquire some 6,500 acres of land, line up funding and take care of other pre-construction needs, Snyder said.
The Red River flows for 400 miles from south to north across the Canada-United States border at the 49th
parallel. The Red River basin includes the States of South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota and the Canadian
province of Manitoba. The major urban areas of Winnipeg (MB), Grand Forks/East Grand Forks (US),
Fargo/Moorhead (US), and Wahpeton/Breckenridge (US) are located in this Red River flood plain. The Red River is
the major source of drinking water and water for agriculture and industry.
A former glacial lake, the Red River basin is a nearly flat watershed covering an extensive area on both sides of
the river. Small increases in flood waters spread overland affecting a wide area.
The Red River and its tributaries flood in significant local areas each year. Notable wider floods occurred in
1826, 1852, 1953, 1979, and 1997. The major floods on the Red River result from a combination of spring runoff,
river ice, and rains. These floods are made more severe in their effects by extensive projects to drain water quickly
from agricultural lands.
In 1997, the Red River flooded. Sister cities Grand Forks/East Grand Forks suffered extensive damage.
Manitoba, Canada, a city of 650,000 people, was narrowly saved in 1997 by a change in wind direction at time of
the peak flood level. The damage from this 1997 flood US $500,000,000. The whole of the basin was disrupted for
months.
The infrastructure of the Red River basin includes several institutions with interests relating to flood
mitigation.∗ These agencies and organizations have partial responsibilities, but none have overall responsibility for
flood mitigation.
The Oklahoma Historical Society became aware of the wreck of a side-paddle wheel steamboat in the Red River of Oklahoma in the fall of 1999. This find has been recognized as one of incredible archaeological and historical significance reaching far beyond the region of its discovery.
The OHS is involved in a multi-year archaeological research project on the wreck. This project is being conducted with the assistance of the Texas A&M University's Institute of Nautical Archaeology, Nautical Archaeology Program, and Conservation Research Laboratory.
The ship is approximately 140 feet in length. Portions of the drive machinery, main deck, and hull are preserved in the main channel of the Red River, with a substantial portion buried beneath the river floor. Analysis of the drive machinery on the wreck suggests that this vessel was constructed no later than 1840. Historical research also suggests that this steamboat was possibly bound for Fort Towson, Choctaw Nation, with military provisions, and that she was lost in 1838.
Goals of the OHS project are to conduct archaeological and historical research sufficient to fully document and understand this ship, and to recover representative portions of the vessel and any cargo for preservation and exhibit. Exhibits will be displayed in the new Oklahoma History Center scheduled to open in 2004, and at a future facility at the OHS Fort Towson Historic Site.
Red River Broadcasting is currently owned by Myron Kunin of Minneapolis, Minnesota (85%), who founded Regis Corporation, and Romeo "Ro" Grignon of Ponsford, Minnesota
The 36-mile channel involves considerably more than just digging a big ditch, with some tricky engineering challenges that help explain why construction is expected to take nearly a decade.
As the channel splits from the river's main path and angles west of the city, it would cross three larger and two smaller tributaries.
It would pass underneath the Sheyenne and Maple rivers through some "extremely large culverts" while open channels — basically aqueducts — would carry the normal flows of those rivers above, said Aaron Snyder, a project manager with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in St. Paul, Minn. Another smaller river, the Wild Rice, would also require its own structure over the channel.
Upstream, a span resembling a highway bridge would have gates that would be lowered during high water to make the diversion.
Construction alone would take 8½ years, and that's just from when the corps gets funding and starts digging. More time will be needed to acquire some 6,500 acres of land, line up funding and take care of other pre-construction needs, Snyder said.
The Red River flows for 400 miles from south to north across the Canada-United States border at the 49th
parallel. The Red River basin includes the States of South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota and the Canadian
province of Manitoba. The major urban areas of Winnipeg (MB), Grand Forks/East Grand Forks (US),
Fargo/Moorhead (US), and Wahpeton/Breckenridge (US) are located in this Red River flood plain. The Red River is
the major source of drinking water and water for agriculture and industry.
A former glacial lake, the Red River basin is a nearly flat watershed covering an extensive area on both sides of
the river. Small increases in flood waters spread overland affecting a wide area.
The Red River and its tributaries flood in significant local areas each year. Notable wider floods occurred in
1826, 1852, 1953, 1979, and 1997. The major floods on the Red River result from a combination of spring runoff,
river ice, and rains. These floods are made more severe in their effects by extensive projects to drain water quickly
from agricultural lands.
In 1997, the Red River flooded. Sister cities Grand Forks/East Grand Forks suffered extensive damage.
Manitoba, Canada, a city of 650,000 people, was narrowly saved in 1997 by a change in wind direction at time of
the peak flood level. The damage from this 1997 flood US $500,000,000. The whole of the basin was disrupted for
months.
The infrastructure of the Red River basin includes several institutions with interests relating to flood
mitigation.∗ These agencies and organizations have partial responsibilities, but none have overall responsibility for
flood mitigation.
The Oklahoma Historical Society became aware of the wreck of a side-paddle wheel steamboat in the Red River of Oklahoma in the fall of 1999. This find has been recognized as one of incredible archaeological and historical significance reaching far beyond the region of its discovery.
The OHS is involved in a multi-year archaeological research project on the wreck. This project is being conducted with the assistance of the Texas A&M University's Institute of Nautical Archaeology, Nautical Archaeology Program, and Conservation Research Laboratory.
The ship is approximately 140 feet in length. Portions of the drive machinery, main deck, and hull are preserved in the main channel of the Red River, with a substantial portion buried beneath the river floor. Analysis of the drive machinery on the wreck suggests that this vessel was constructed no later than 1840. Historical research also suggests that this steamboat was possibly bound for Fort Towson, Choctaw Nation, with military provisions, and that she was lost in 1838.
Goals of the OHS project are to conduct archaeological and historical research sufficient to fully document and understand this ship, and to recover representative portions of the vessel and any cargo for preservation and exhibit. Exhibits will be displayed in the new Oklahoma History Center scheduled to open in 2004, and at a future facility at the OHS Fort Towson Historic Site.
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