Hello, I've worked in public "contract" archaeology for many years as an archaeological technician and would like to voice my concern over this permit application: St. Louis District Corps Permit application: P2476.
For many years working in New York City I have worked with various students in the field of archaeology and as you might imagine from a wide varied experience. The Cahokia Mounds are one of the major archaeology wonders (and ongoing New York University field-school in archaeology, or was) in North America, which I would hear new aspects discovered regularly (maybe examples of MesoAmerican trade, new structures in a former "pig farm" area, large log palisades, updated larger population estimates, etc.) that help explain the history of a part of our country and its natives past organization, a past unknown to European nations when they arrived.
I imagine, former President and General Ulysses S. Grant, who is interred in New York City with his wife, a native of that area of Missouri, might want a better consideration for his origin and its influence on him and other Americans, like myself who grew up on Long Island with a Missourian's sons in Centereach, NY deserving better than a garbage dump next to what is part of the people who have inspired the formation of our democracy, as cited by Benjamin Franklin and others.
Sent to the US Army Corps of Engineers
Send one too: http://www.hq.usace.army.mil/contact/contact1.asp?fid=10
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