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A map of the FM Area Diversion Project. The Fargo-Moorhead (FM) Area Diversion project, officially known as the Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Area Diversion Flood Risk Management Project, is a large, regional flood control infrastructure project on the Red River of the North, which forms the border between North Dakota and Minnesota and flows north to Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada.
The Red River Women's Clinic was originally located in Fargo, North Dakota, and for many years was the only abortion clinic in North Dakota. [1] It began operating in 1998. [ 2 ] The clinic's director is Tammi Kromenaker. [ 3 ]
Historically part of Sioux territory, the area that is present-day Fargo was an early stopping point for steamboats traversing the Red River during the 1870s and 1880s. . The city was originally named "Centralia", but was later renamed "Fargo" after Northern Pacific Railway director and Wells Fargo Express Company founder William Fargo (1818–1881)
The mouth of the Red River forms a freshwater river delta called the Netley–Libau Marsh. [4] The Netley Marsh is west of the Red and the Libau Marsh is east, forming a 26,000-hectare (64,000-acre) wetland. Southern Manitoba has a frost-free season of between 120 and 140 days per year in the Red River Valley. [5]
The 2009 Red River flood along the Red River of the North in North Dakota and Minnesota in the United States and Manitoba in Canada brought record flood levels to the Fargo-Moorhead area. The flood was a result of saturated and frozen ground, spring snowmelt exacerbated by additional rain and snow storms, and virtually flat terrain.
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CHI St. Alexius Health Williston Medical Center (formerly Mercy Medical Center) Williston: Williams 25 [1] [9] [4] Cooperstown Medical Center Cooperstown: Griggs 18 [1] [4] Essentia Health-Fargo Hospital (Essentia Health) Fargo: Cass 133, II [1] [4] First Care Health Center Park River: Walsh 14 [1] [4] Fort Yates Hospital Fort Yates: Sioux 12 ...