RAPIDAN, Minn. – County and state officials gathered at the Rapidan Dam Tuesday to assess a still-closed bridge next to the Rapidan Dam that may be at risk of “partial or full failure” as a result of the dam’s worst flooding in nearly 60 years. The assessment came during a visit Tuesday by Gov. Tim […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The visuals were stunning: Water from the Blue Earth River surged around a southern Minnesota dam, carrying a shipping container with it as it toppled utility poles, wrecked a substation and washed away part of a riverbank. A home teetered on the edge of an eroded slope as floodwaters rushed underneath. Earlier […]
The Rapidan Dam southwest of Mankato should withstand recent historic flooding on the Blue Earth River, but the near-miss underscores the risk for an old and vulnerable structure that county officials have wrestled with removing for years. “This brings that conversation of what are we going to do with the dam, a 114-year piece of […]
MANKATO, Minn. – A Minnesota river that flowed over its banks after recent heavy rain pulled a building into the rushing water Monday and sent it over a dam. Randy Hanson joined other shocked spectators at the Rapidan Dam to witness a sight he had never seen before. The Blue Earth River rushed around and […]