A river runs through it. And Wal-mart wants to build a supercenter next to it. The South Platte Park is a natural flood plain downstream from the Chatfield Reservoir. It is 672 acres of woodlands, grasslands and wetlands in the heart of suburbia. It is home to more than 300 species of vertebrates and hundreds more native wildflowers, grasses and shrubs. The Wal-Mart supercenter would be an adjacent plain of concrete and asphalt that would never close.The new store could bring in more than $1 million in tax revenues a year. There are three Wal-Marts within 7 miles of the one proposed near the South Platte River. A citizens group, Littleton Against Wal-Mart, is petitioning and fighting the proposed development.

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