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The Flood Recovery Project is supported by the Corporation for National Service under a grant awarded to the Minnesota Conservation Corps for Special Programs for Flood Relief. The Minnesota Conservation Corps (MCC), working through the Department of Natural Resources. hired young adults beginning in the spring of 1994 to help southwestern Minnesota communities restore damages caused by the flood of 1993. Ten MCC crews were engaged in cleanup and repair projects ranging from state park rehabilitation to assisting low income families with the assessment and repair of flood damaged homes. They finished in December of 1994. Working with Southwest State University, the MCC also hired college students to create a comprehensive collection of historical data on the flood of 1993 in southwestern Minnesota. The flood historians are a group of five Southwest State University students working to gather infomnation regarding various aspects of the 1993 flood. The student members of the flood history project are Toni Beebout-Bladholm, Jennifer Mathiason, Stacy Monge, Julie Porter, and Rebecca Schlorf. The students are supervised by Janet Timmerman, an AmeriCorps/VISTA volunteer, and Dr. Joseph Amato, a history professor at SSU. - They are in the process of publishing a book that looks at the flood from many angles. They have Iooked at personal experiences, agency involvement and conflict, the impact of wetland draining, the history of flooding in Area II. the impact of the flood on agriculture, and have collected photographs of the flooding. A two-day conference "At the Headwaters: the Flood of 1993 in Southwestern Minnesota". sponsored by the Flood Recovery Information Retrieval Project. was held on Aprll 20th and 21st. Approximately seventy visitors took advantage of the historical gathering. To underscore the perennial nature of flooding, the Redwood River was within inches of jumping its banks during the conference. The project will continue next year taking the information on the road. to area towns. schools. and agencies to continue flood. awareness and bring understanding of each area's particular interests. ~:". =-:F ~: ~. Y ~_ ;~=~ ', _ _ ._~ .r _•~ E S: ~~ ~-= -~= . ,_