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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is still weighing the EPA's permit suspension request. 5:42 pm, Mar. 8, 2021 × Plans for PolyMet include building dams to increase the storage capacity of tailings basins. One would be built in the distance to raise the basin on the right to the level of the area on the left. (Steve Kuchera / 2017 file / News Tribune) A federal judge approved the Environmental Protection Agency's proposal to study potential effects of PolyMet's copper-nickel mine on the downstream Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, beginning a 90-day review. But the U.S. ...

Corps of Engineers completes second ice survey of the season Written By: Steve Gardiner | × Bill Chelmowski and Dan DeVaney used this airboat to conduct the ice survey on Lake Pepin on February 9, 2021. Steve Gardiner / RiverTown Multimedia The air temperature was 5 degrees above zero. The wind chill didn’t matter, because once Bill Chelmowski and Dan DeVaney climbed onto the airboat, they created more wind chill than nature did. The two are members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers crew that conducts the ice depth surveys on Lake Pepin every February and March. “When ...

First official ice measurements by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 2021 come in below average. 7:25 am, Feb. 10, 2021 × Bill Chelmowski, boat operator for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, digs a hole to measure the ice on Lake Pepin Tuesday as part of the Corps' annual survey of the ice thickness on the lake. Tuesday's measurements were thinner than the average for this time of year. (Brian Todd/btodd@postbulletin.com) OLD FRONTENAC — Never has thin ice been so welcomed. Tuesday, a crew from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District took its fir...