[Excerpts from June 4, 2004 Senator Conrad Press Release]
Senators Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan, Congressman Earl Pomeroy and Governor John Hoeven announced today that the nation's emergency chief has accepted their invitation to personally come to North Dakota and observe the Devils Lake flood crisis.

Michael Brown, Under Secretary for Emergency Preparedness and Response at the Department of Homeland Security, accepted the invitation a day after the delegation and the governor pressed him to see firsthand the devastation in the Devils Lake basin wrought by the lake's rising waters.

Devils Lake has reached its highest levels in more than 130 years and is dangerously close to overtaking the lake levee. Brown, who oversees the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has been urged by the delegation and the governor to aid the Devils Lake community with raising roads above the floodwaters, relocating homes and raising the height of the lake levee.

Full Release
ND DEM Situation Reports
FEMA Devils Lake Flooding Proposed Initiative

[If you come across news of regional interest, please email to rwald@ndsuext.nodak.edu or submit via our Feedback Form.]