"What would the people of Rochester, Minnesota, do with a river, were they to have one flowing through their city?"

An answer to the question!

 

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In Rochester, Minnesota, on September 3rd, 2023, was a flood control project on the South Fork Zumbro River (built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, completed in 1996), as viewed from a footbridge in Soldiers Field Park, near the intersection of Broadway Avenue South and 9th Street Southeast, during an extreme drought as declared by the National Weather Service.

 

The South Fork Zumbro River converges with the Middle Fork Zumbro River to form the Zumbro River, which flows to the Mississippi River.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Olmsted (county) (2001053)

• Rochester (2055340)

• South Fork Zumbro River (2680484)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• artificial water channels (300133792)

• autumn (300133093)

• crushed stone (300011681)

• drought (300055368)

• flood control (300055278)

• levees (300006156)

• riverine landscapes (300435110)

• rivers (300008707)

• summer (season) (300133099)

• urban landscapes (300132447)

 

Wikidata items:

• 3 September 2023 (Q69306911)

• 1996 in the environment (Q4591908)

• Central tall grasslands (Q5062159)

• Driftless Area (Q5307487)

• Driftless Area ecoregion (Q122302119)

• Mississippi River drainage basin (Q2887546)

• municipal park (Q22746)

• river engineering (Q1187134)

• Rochester-Austin-Winona, MN Combined Statistical Area (Q123614775)

• Rochester/Paleozoic Plateau Upland (Q122303614)

• September 3 (Q2860)

• September 2023 (Q61312993)

• silt fence (Q7515601)

• Soldiers Field Park (Q49562963)

• South Fork Zumbro River (Q35320409)

• Southeast Minnesota (Q7569365)

• stream channelization (Q42296746)

• Treaty of Traverse des Sioux (Q7837264)

• United States Army Corps of Engineers (Q1049334)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Rivers—Minnesota (sh85114344)

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