The St Paul District Corps of Engineers maintains a comprehensive Web site as do many other agencies. Included below is a summary of the COE site showing links to key COE offices, to other Federal agencies and to State agencies having flood-related data. Agency links shown in bold type have information specific to the 1997 Spring floods.

US Army Corps of Engineers

• Headquarters, USACE, Washington, DC
  
• St Paul District St Paul, MN
  
• Navigation Information Connection: Upper Mississippi River
  
• Rock Island District Water Control Center, Rock Island, IL
  
• St Louis District Water Control Center, St. Louis, Missouri
  
• Detroit District Great Lakes, Detroit, Michigan
  
• Missouri River Region Water Management, Omaha, NE
  
• Hydrologic Engineering Center, Davis CA
  
• CRREL Ice Engineering Research Division, Hanover, NH
  

Federal Agencies

• US Geological Survey Reston, VA
  
• USGS Historic Data Retrieval
• USGS Minnesota Real Time Data, Moundsview, MN
  
• USGS North Dakota Real Time Data, Bismarck, ND
  
• USGS Wisconsin Real Time Data, Madison, WI
  
• National Weather Service River Forecast Center Chanhassen, MN
  
• National Operational Remote Sensing Center Chanhassen, MN
  
• FEMA - Federal Emergency Management Agency
  
• National Climatic Data Center Flood Summary
  

State Agencies

• Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
  
• Minnesota State Climatology Office
  
• Minnesota DPS Division of Emergency Management
  
• North Dakota State Water Commission
  
• North Dakota Division of Emergency Management
  

International Joint Commission Boards

• International Souris River Board of Control
• Lake of the Woods Control Board
• Rainy Lake Board of Control
• International Souris-Red Rivers Engineering Board

Miscellaneous

• US Air Force Combat Climatology Center, Scott AFB.
  

Other key sites:

The Minnesota State Climatology Office site describes climate conditions leading to the flooding and shows Red River of the North stage hydrographs.

COE Emergency Operations Center information.

Available COE aerial photography images.

The Minnesota State Planning agency also has a summary of flood related sites.

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