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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - The first Mississippi River towboat has marked the unofficial start of the 2022 navigat...

The first Mississippi River towboat has marked the unofficial start of the 2022 navigation season.

Later this year construction will be under way for all three control structures and the 30-mile diversion channel to protect the Fargo-Moorhead metro area from extreme flooding.

Prior to the end of the Civil War and the coming of the railroad, the river ice meant Burlington largely was cut off from communications to eastern cities so when the ice finally retreated in the spring, a general sense of relief swept the community.

While Red Lake River remains relatively high, Grand Cities staff don't foresee further drought measures Grand Forks' drought plan calls for harsher conservation measures than the ones city leaders have put into place thus far, and city utility staff indicated that's because there's still plenty of water in the Red Lake River, from which the city gets most of its supply. Staff at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which operates a dam at the river's source, plan to keep the dam open enough to, at least theoretically, fulfil Grand Forks and East Grand Forks' typical water demands for...