Construction of Phase MI-5, the Northeast Tieback Levee, is expected to start Monday, May 6, at the intersection of Third Street Northeast and Fifth Avenue Northeast.

Third Street will be closed to through traffic starting at Sixth Avenue Northeast from the north and Central Avenue from the south. The Third Street Northeast bridge will be closed and that traffic shall utilize Broadway. Fifth Avenue will be closed at this time from Second Street from the west and Fourth Street from the east.

Temporary streetlights will be added to the intersection of Sixth Avenue Northeast and Third Street to help alleviate construction traffic through this roadway closure. Access to local businesses will be signed to travel through the construction zone. It is anticipated that Third Street Northeast will be closed to traffic through the middle of June.

Railway Avenue will continue to be closed to traffic from Third Street Northeast to 27th Street Northeast. Railway Avenue will remain closed for the 2024 construction season. It is anticipated Railway Avenue will be open to through traffic starting in the fall of 2024.

Through traffic on Railway Avenue will continue to detour south to Burdick Expressway, while local traffic will utilize Sixth Avenue Northeast to access residential neighborhoods north of Railway Avenue.

The work on Railway Avenue and Fourth Avenue Northeast is part of the Phase MI-5 Northeast Tieback Levee project, a Mouse River Enhanced Flood Protection Project phase. Phase MI-5 includes earthen levees, arterial road changes, a dry stormwater pond, floodwalls, a city greenway feature and a stormwater pump station.

When completed and connected to the first four phases of the MREFPP, the MI-5 phase will help remove about 60% of Minot residents from the proposed floodplain and 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.