[Excerpts from May. 14, 2004 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers News Release]
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, will spend the next few days monitoring levees it helped raise and reinforce in Roseau, Minn., May 12-14.

The emergency levee raise was in response to a request from the State of Minnesota for the Corps of Engineers to provide resources to protect the city to a stage of 23 feet on the Roseau River, in response to the forecasted high-water levels.

"The Army Corps of Engineers will continue to work with officials from Roseau and the State of Minnesota to monitor the integrity of levees until the water recedes," said David Christenson, St. Paul District readiness team leader.

Nine Army Corps of Engineers employees are supporting, or have supported, the flood fight. The Corps hired private contractors to place more than 30,000 cubic yards of materials needed to raise more than 7,000 feet of levees in the Roseau area. The Corps also provided more than 200,000 sandbags to the city.
 

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