PRELIMINARY/DESIGN PHASE
Update: August 2024
Phase MI-6 Downtown spans from Main Street north in the Minot downtown area and continues east along the railroad tracks and river past 8th Street SE. The phase ultimately ends in Roosevelt Park, which will tie into Phase MI-7 Roosevelt Park & Zoo, a recently completed design with construction anticipated to begin this year.
The features of this phase include concrete floodwalls, earthen levees, roadway changes, utilities, a gatewell, and a stormwater pump station with a gatewell. Some concrete floodwalls will be similar in height, pattern, and color to the Phase MI-1 floodwalls (which are on the north side of the river on 4th Ave NW and 4th Ave NE), extending an average of 13 feet above the finished grade. The portion along Central Avenue will still be similar in height but will be a different pattern and color to tie into the pump station and park features. Earthen levees will be seeded and become a natural green space when the project is completed.
This phase will be bid in the fall of 2024, with construction starting later this fall/winter. Construction is anticipated to be completed at the end of 2026.
Phase MI-6 Downtown Minot
urban flood control
Milestone 2 includes Phases MI-6, 7, 8, and 9 and will protect the south side of the river from Main Street to south of 8th Avenue SW. Phase MI-6 spans from Main Street North and continues to the east along the railroad tracks and river past 8th Street NE and ends in Roosevelt Park where it will tie into Phase MI-7.
The project features of this phase include concrete floodwalls, earthen levees, roadway changes, utilities, a gatewell, and a stormwater pump station with gatewell. The concrete floodwalls will be similar in height to the Phase MI-1 floodwalls, extending an average of 14 feet above the finished grade. Earthen levees will be seeded and become a natural green space.
When completed and connected to Milestone 2 of the MREFPP, the MI-6 phase will help remove downtown Minot from the proposed FEMA floodplain and, most importantly, provide long-term flood protection to the record flood of 2011. All the enhanced flood protection projects currently under construction, and those under design provide a level of protection equal to the 2011 flood, plus three feet of freeboard.
