It was based on a study on anti-Semitic morons and the effect of their living in a low-oxygen environment.
Let me turn down the ozone generator while I measure the various levels of hatred in just that one sentence. Last place I heard that tone was when the Hooker said, the chairs (patio) are for 'my Church ladies', she made it sound like you could put them on a wall when done until you needed them again. She never turns them away so she is working at it, . . . unlike you and the loco collective.
You never mentioned how many seconds the study took, let alone why 'your kind' is obsessed with 'all sorts of studies' and real shy on practical long term solutions, as in this example. $22M and a few months with the Village almost deserted, go to town with your bulldozer and any attachment you need. The people will renovate and the dozer will 'landscape the place fit for the people the time and the place' and a trend to make the livable when 'the village power goes out'. How much would 1 year do in the number that had to be evacuated next year. Planning this summer and material goods moved in over the winter and repairs can begin on the homes as they are lived in. When the frost is gone then the real work begins. Houses lower than the level of the dike will be moved if possible and buried if not. The material would come from to fill in all the low area would come from the far side of the ring-road or dredged from the backwater part of the river using a fleet of barges or conveyor belts if high production is desired and then one year would complete that rather than 'a few years'.
The Village can hauls heating oil so they can haul water and sewage so the underground part of those utilities is not needed. Each house would also be able to treat the snow/rain they collect as that is probably better than swamp water which is what river water is made of in those areas.
$200M-400M would allow what kind of dwelling that is meant to be comfortable and in what is 'an off grid community' where reliance on help coming from outside is once a year so reliability is always at the top of the list? 'Dried peat logs' that are formed under 50 tons of pressure might save a house if the normal method of heating is unavailable. Or there is underground liquid water that can be used for emergency heat that will keep the place above freezing when no moving parts are needed as it the case with geo thermal methods. Even in the far north it can be used to keep things frozen for the few months melting is happening.
By the sound of it they plan it to build the same defective place only 20 ft higher than the river that wasn't the problem in their current location. The Indians would end up paying for the whole thing even though the original defects were the Governments fault, rather than the Indians being the root cause.
Imagine what the full report that was supposed to have been done would show if this is from just a few photos designed to hide the real flaw and blame it in the ice on the river. It would be like an demo guy seeing 9/11 without any hype and giving his view about 'planned' or 'accidental'.