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southern MN | Back in the 90s we had 2 really bad spring melt flooding years, had to sandbag the river. Hadn’t seen that since the 60s.
Anyhow the temporary clay levees they set up and a bit of the sand got scraped up and set in a pile temporarily until they decided what to use the dirt for . Which now that I think of it would have been in a flood plain wetland. Hum.
Anyhow, folk were deciding what to do with the clay dirt pile, and then some govt agency pointed out it was all considered hazardous because it had touched river flood water for a couple weeks. That put an end to the uses for that hill of dirt, no one wanted the liability the govt had labeled it with.
So there the dirt sat, was a couple acre deal a dozen or so feet high.
Decade went by and some anti ag folk started the community organic gardens on that mound, since no one else was using it they got it for free.
I chuckle every time I drive by.
People’s biases really can mess them up.
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California fires, Clean up after everything has settled down?
