IN CONSTRUCTION
Phase MI-6: Downtown Minot
April 2025
Construction is ramping back up for 2025 on Phase MI-6B South Downtown/Roosevelt Park. This phase stretches from 4th Street NE to 8th Street NE along Central Avenue, and continues into Roosevelt Park, where it will ultimately connect to Phase MI-7E Roosevelt Park & Zoo. Key components of this phase include a seepage barrier, concrete floodwalls, earthen levees, utility improvements, and stormwater management systems and structures.
The installation of the preconsolidation piles for the structures was completed over this past winter except for the final pile to be constructed for the gatewell structure. Following relocation of preconsolidation piles, the construction of stormwater outfalls to the river has begun and work will soon be underway for the below-ground portions of the new stormwater pump station.
A seepage barrier will be installed this spring below the full alignment of the future levee and floodwall to prevent water migration during times of high water. Once this critical work is complete, construction of the new flood protection features—earthen levees and floodwalls—will proceed. Bank erosion protection is also being added along the river throughout the project area to ensure long-term riverbank stability
Realignment and replacement of water and sewer utilities will also be completed this summer. Beginning at the connection to MI-7E near the Roosevelt Pool Building, water and sewer utility work will extend west out of the park along Central Avenue to 4th Street NE and then north to 1st Avenue NE. The realignment of the waterline will include the boring of a new 20-inch high-density polyethylene (HDPE) watermain under the river near 1st Avenue and 4th Street NE.
Additional work anticipated for 2025 will include roadway and streetscape improvements along 4th Street (from 1st Avenue NE to Central Avenue) and along Central Avenue from 4th Street to 8th Street NE. These enhancements include new pavement, curb and gutter, lighting, and storm sewer installations.
Phase MI-6B is scheduled to be substantially complete by the fall of 2027.
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PROJECT OVERVIEW
Phase MI-6 Downtown Minot
urban flood control
Milestone 2 includes Phases MI-6, 7, 8, and 9 and will protect the south side of the river from Main Street to south of 8th Avenue SW. Phase MI-6 spans from Main Street North and continues to the east along the railroad tracks and river past 8th Street NE and ends in Roosevelt Park where it will tie into Phase MI-7.
The project features of this phase include concrete floodwalls, earthen levees, roadway changes, utilities, a gatewell, and a stormwater pump station with gatewell. The concrete floodwalls will be similar in height to the Phase MI-1 floodwalls, extending an average of 14 feet above the finished grade. Earthen levees will be seeded and become a natural green space.
When completed and connected to Milestone 2 of the MREFPP, the MI-6 phase will help remove downtown Minot from the proposed FEMA floodplain and, most importantly, provide long-term flood protection to the record flood of 2011. All the enhanced flood protection projects currently under construction, and those under design provide a level of protection equal to the 2011 flood, plus three feet of freeboard.