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The Red River flood of 1997 in the eastern part of the Prairie-Great Plains region of North America was the worst on record in many parts of the basin and caused widespread damage in Minnesota and North Dakota in the United States and in Manitoba in Canada. In the flat, wide floodplain, the floodwaters spread up to 40 kilometres wide. It flooded the major regional centre of Grand Forks/East Grant Forks, numerous smaller communities as well as coming precipitously close to flooding the city of Winnipeg.
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LEMARQUAND, D. (2006). RED RIVER FLOODING: Mitigation Planning in an International River Basin. In: Schanze, J., Zeman, E., Marsalek, J. (eds) Flood Risk Management: Hazards, Vulnerability and Mitigation Measures. NATO Science Series, vol 67. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4598-1_17
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