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Officials will hold a meeting with community members Wednesday to give an update on the ongoing investigation of the foundry. Representatives from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the state and city health departments will speak to attendees.
St. Paul’s draft Bicycle Plan envisions 337 miles of bikeways crisscrossing the city in an elaborate network by the year 2040, with nearly three-fourths of that network consisting of protected, separated bikeways and off-street paths. That’s an increase of 119 miles of new bikeways in the next 16 years — an ambitious proposal that drew sizable turnout on Friday during a public hearing before .
Neighbors describe the odorscoming from Smith Foundry and Bituminous Roadways as chemical, sickly sweet, metallic and, at times, like burning tires. People who live near the south Minneapolis iron foundry and asphalt plant have spent years sounding alarms about what the sites are sending into the air — out of concern for their health, but also the simple nuisance of a pervasive stench. But the .