Please describe the context of raising levees and running an outlet and doing things to try to protect roads and keep the economy working.

If Senator Dorgan is correct that the flooding at the Canadian border constitutes a violation of the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909, then the violation is the result of North Dakota's failure to comply with the Treaty and with its own…

We in Valley City are appreciative of the combined efforts of Senator Dorgan and State Officials in North Dakota.

upper basin storage be included as a key tool to help solve the growing crisis caused by the ongoing flooding at Devils Lake.

We've spent a boatload of money, a lot of money, and have been involved all of the years...

That would cost you $45 million?

. . . I have always insisted, I am not interested in transferring the problems from one region of our state to another.

If Fargo, for example, and others determine that they need for their own reasons to build a $45 million treatment plant, where would the money come from for that and is there a commitment from the State to fund that?

I guess the question is why not? If the release of the outlet in Devils Lake moves water from the lake and increases sulfate levels and so on, whatever the consequences of that are, why would there not be at this point or moving forward…

not interested in transferring the problem from one region of our state to another.

I can't speak for those people, but now they would maybe fatalistically accept that that was the right plan.

The testimony of the mayor in Fargo, and I suspect that the concern of Valley City and probably West Fargo, about the issue of treatment is because from their perspective they anticipate that there will be higher levels of sulfates…