Just northeast of the Fargo Sewage Treatment Plant, the Red River flows through an especially tight meander. Over the years, erosion and mass wasting along the outside edge of this meander have caused major bank retreat. Aerial view of the meander loop, July, 2000. View is toward the southwest. The yellow arrow points to a large cutbank on outside of the meander.
River flow is left to right across the photo.
The small patch of land directly beneath the yellow arrow is the former site of a county-owned paupers' cemetery. North Broadway winds to the lower left of the photo, another area of active mass wasting. Over the years in a tiny plot of land at the northeast corner of North Broadway and Trollwood Drive, the county had laid to rest the bodies of the hapless, the penniless, the murdered, and the unknown. But river bank retreat encroached upon the cemetery, causing displacement of both earth materials and human remains. In 1985, Cass County excavated the remains of over 350 individuals believed to have been buried here and reinterred them in a cemetery closer to the Hector Field.