With mercury pushing past the century mark, city officials are planning a mid-July opening for the new inflatable water park at Trees Lake, part of Voiers “Pit” Park. A recent city council meeting ...

BOVEY -- It's a problem that's only getting deeper. The water level in a nearly 5-mile-long chain of abandoned mine pits on the western Iron Range continues to rise, even as the debate persists over ...

The small Itasca County town of Bovey won a lifeline to stave off flooding this year: State lawmakers approved $8.87 million to drain a mine pit that has long threatened to overflow. After years of ...

Pit lakes, formed by the flooding of abandoned mining pits, represent a complex legacy of past industrial activities. Their unique hydrological and geochemical characteristics often result in ...

He was a boy, there was a drainage pit. Can we make it any more obvious? A new skatepark in Denmark doubles as stormwater runoff–because no one is skating when it’s pouring rain. As extreme flooding ...