Kinni Corridor project

Kinni Corridor Updates


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January 2023 River Falls Reader

In partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the National Park Service, the City of River Falls hosted an open house on Wednesday, June 4th, 2025 that provided progress updates on the implementation of the Kinni Corridor Plan. 

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been working on the Continuing Authorities Program Section 206 project draft Feasibility Study to analyze the practicality and potential success of the project. The study was released to the public in May for a 30-day public comment period. The draft report and environmental assessment describing the study and environmental effects are available to the public and can be viewed and downloaded from the St. Paul District website at: https://www.mvp.usace.army.mil/Home/Public-Notices/. Questions or comments on the report and environmental assessment will be accepted through June 20, 2025, and should be directed to CEMVP_Planning@usace.army.mil. Please address all formal written correspondence on this project to the St. Paul District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Attention: Regional Planning and Environmental Division North, 332 Minnesota Street, St. Paul, Minnesota, 55101. 

The City received an award of a technical assistance in 2024 from the National Park Service Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance Program. The program provides NPS staff time and resources to assist communities in developing and restoring parks, conservation areas, rivers, and wildlife habitats, as well as creating outdoor recreation opportunities and programs to engage future generations in the outdoors. It is through the NPS work that the City is forwarding the visions set in the Kinni Corridor Plan and taking them one step further in detail toward reality. 

"We need to understand how the corridor recreation pieces are going to interplay with the USACE projects, so NPS has been key in providing more detailed planning and design for specific recreation elements within the corridor," said Community Development Director Amy Peterson. 

"The National Park Service recognizes the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that the City of River Falls has to create amazing outdoor recreation amenities along the Kinnickinnic River," said Barett Steenrod, Community Planner with Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance Program of the National Park Service. "Our team has been working hard to offer our best recreation planning thinking to the City as part of its efforts to bring the Kinni Corridor Plan to life. We are excited to share the results of this collaboration with the public."