Once-polluted Duluth riverfront to reopen after $165 million cleanup startribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from startribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
DULUTH — More than three years and $165 million later, the once polluted U.S. Steel grounds along the St. Louis River are nearly set to welcome visitors. Open next summer, the 92 acres of permanently protected green space will include a 2-mile trail extension along the water, a 1-mile wheelchair-accessible loop circling a peninsula, bridges and interpretive signs honoring the Anishinaabe's .
The capture and killing of wild Canada geese is part of a plan to restore wild rice beds to the St. Louis River. A total of 549 geese were killed this summer as part of the initiative.