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a dozen people presented Mayor Bob Werkhoven with a petition asking the state to stop threatening Valley City and the Sheyenne River Valley with unnecessary damage by sending large amounts of water and poor quality water from Devils Lake down the Sheyenne River.

More than 900 petitioners are requesting that the Tolna Coulee be armored at 1458 feet above sea level with no water release structure.

 

No outlet be built on the east end of Devils Lake or Stump Lake due to high sulfate levels.
A moratorium be placed immediately on future upper basin drainage and the restoration of wetlands.
And release a comprehensive mitigation plan for downstream damage be in place and funded before the building of a new outlet.

 

Spokeswoman Sharon Buhr says state officials have wasted two years by not ordering an Environmental Impact Study to determine the best way to solve the problem by hurting the fewest number of people downstream.