Final Technical Memorandum; Diversion inlet gate analysis
Abstract
The proposed FM Diversion begins approximately 4 miles south (upstream) of the confluence of the Red and Wild
Rice Rivers and extends west around the cities of Horace, Fargo, West Fargo, and Harwood. The 36 mile long
diversion channel crosses several rivers. The project includes gated control structures at the Red and Wild Rice
Rivers. It has aqueducts at the Sheyenne and Maple Rivers that allow low tributary flows to enter the interior of
the project area while larger flows would be passed into the diversion. The diversion channel also crosses the Rush
and Lower Rush Rivers as well as several drains. The diversion channel ultimately discharges into the Red River
downstream from the Red River’s confluence with the Sheyenne River near the city of Georgetown, MN