Corps of Engineers celebrates completion of Drayton Dam project [Video]

DRAYTON, N.D. (Valley News Live) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is celebrating the completion of its Drayton Dam Fish Passage Mitigation Project. A dedication ceremony is happening at the site of the dam near Drayton, North Dakota, on September 25.

The project included replacing the old Drayton Dam, the last impediment to fish passage between the source of the Red River in Wahpeton/Breckenridge to the St. Andrews Lock and Dam in Lockport, Manitoba, north of Winnipeg.

The Corps says the new dam structure includes a sloping set of rapids with a rock passageway. Rocks and boulders were placed in patterns to create pools through which fish can easily pass.

The project, funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, cost $7.7 million and served as a mitigation element of the Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Area Flood Risk Management Project. It was built by the Corps of Engineers contractor HSG Park Joint Venture, …