Byron Dorgan: “I want to say--as my colleague, Senator Conrad, said--that it is not our intention to build an outlet from the lake…”

“I want to say--as my colleague, Senator Conrad, said--that it is not our intention to build an outlet from the lake itself in a manner that injures anyone. We don't come to this project saying we would like to have a project for our State. This is not something we are anxious to do because we believe this project would be something that would be a feather in our cap. We come to this because we have a lake that has been chronically flooding for a long time. As was mentioned earlier, there are only two closed basins in this country. One is the Great Salt Lake and the other is Devils Lake. The upper basin of Devils Lake is the size of the State of Massachusetts. Water funnels down from that basin into Devils Lake.”