Would you drain a treasured lake in The City of Lakes to save nine holes of golf?
Messenger guest submission by Sean Connaughty on April 30, 2022
Excerpt:
“As important as the history of our local municipal golf courses may be, it is not necessary to sacrifice our future to preserve the past. We are in a climate crisis and the answer is not to foist our problems on downstream communities as proposed by Southside Pride and in the Lehman Bronze concept.
Nor is the answer to continue pumping hundreds of millions of gallons to deprive the floodplain of its natural function of mitigating flooding.
Lake Hiawatha already has the shortest residence time of any lake in Minneapolis. The answer is not to even further increase our negligence to downstream communities by increasing the burden of water on them.
The ongoing destruction of the Mississippi River Delta and the Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico are in large part the result of the removal of wetlands and the channelization and leveeing of upstream waters like this one.”