Minnesota transportation officials have announced eight flood mitigation projects to be built over the next five years.
The Minnesota Department of Transportation said the projects total $30 million and are part of a $50 million flood mitigation program.
MnDOT Commissioner Tom Sorel after statewide flooding in the fall of 2010, the department created the program to make state roads more resistant to flood damage.
The projects are funded through existing bonding authority.
One project replaces the Highway 101 bridge over the Minnesota River and raises the roadway near the bridge between Shakopee and Chanhassen. Construction on that project begins in 2014.
Another major project realigns Highway 75 north of Breckenridge to be outside the flood plain. Work on that begins in 2016.
Topics Flood New Markets Minnesota
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