Right now the Federal Government must consider (or at least it did during the Clinton Administration) cumulative impacts in every project they spend money on. It must consider environmental justice in every project it takes on. And cumulative impacts are a part of this consideration. Is the federal money that is spent in this city put under the same scrutinizing eye? That might include money that comes in from the designation of this majestic and completely unique part of the river as an American Heritage River. This designation charges us to watch over and protect the Mississippi and the 14 bald eagles that can be seen regularly feeding and perching just feet below those airplanes coming in from the south.
Unfortunately we look at this beautiful gift that has been carved out before us, that has filtered the water in its boggy 100-year flood plain...... as a runway, dump site and grinding area where we map known and potential sources of soil and groundwater contamination and where we monitor air that has been designated by the federal government as unbreathable.
Didn't some renowned developers from Canada just help us design a vision for St. Paul which takes advantage of this amazing and one of a kind bend in the river?
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