Trout Brook / Phalen Creek Tunnel
While strolling along the St. Paul waterfront in the late 1980s I came across a manhole lid upon which the words “Trout Brook” had been crudely spray-painted in fluorescent, orange letters. Scanning the riverbanks in the vicinity, I spied a cavernous sewer outfall, more than garage-sized, disgorging a multi-hued stream of water to the Mississippi […]