St. Croix bridge project spawned dozens of environmental improvements


St. Croix bridge project spawned dozens of environmental improvements


Environmental improvements on both sides of the St. Croix River are driven by an influx of funding.

Giant concrete piers, standing like the ghosts of early industry, for years inhabited the St. Croix River where a new four-lane bridge now links Minnesota and Wisconsin. To conservationists, those 24 unused piers represented blight on a free-flowing river.

Now they’re gone, removed in a great sweep of environmental improvements made possible by Minnesota’s largest bridge project....

....While the bridge captured the headlines, conservationists and local governments have used a $42 million budget for “mitigations,” as they’re known in the public policy world, to fund parks, study phosphorus runoff, preserve land along the river bluffs from development, and even write a “spill response plan” should mass pollution of the St. Croix occur....

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Ken Notes: I have long suggested that large development projects can be used to fund ancillary projects. I hope we apply this concept to Foxconn...

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