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OUTSIDE BOVEY, MINN.— Contractors were supposed to be hard at work this summer building drainage along the edge of the Canisteo Mine Pit, a complex of several former mines that threatens to flood this ...

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The Department of Natural Resources said it may have to change its plan to drain the Canisteo Mine Pit because a filter for zebra mussels may not work as designed.