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The Rapidan Dam, built in 1910 and managed by Blue Earth County, was described on the county’s website as in a “state of disrepair.” After flooding in 2019 and 2020, a power generation ...
A key dam in Minnesota partially failed on Monday afternoon after severe flooding hit the region. The Rapidan Dam in Blue Earth County, Minnesota is breaking down as rushing waters sweep debris ...
At least two people are dead after severe storms and major flooding hit the Midwest, according to officials, and a dam in southern Minnesota built in the early 1900s is at risk of failing ...
The Rapidan Dam is a concrete gravity dam located on the Blue Earth River in Rapidan Township southwest of Mankato, Minnesota in the United States. The dam was constructed from 1908 to 1910 to generate hydroelectric power .
Severe environmental damage could occur if that sediment were to break loose and seep into the river, he said. What would it cost to repair the dam? The 2021 engineering report put the cost of repairing the dam at $15.2 million — in addition to more than $6 million that the county had spent since 2002.
The Rapidan Dam's west abutment failed Monday, sending the river around the dam and eroding the bank where the home sat. The family had evacuated before the collapse. “It’s been a very scary and hard situation,” Jenny Barnes, whose family owned the house and has run the nearby Dam Store for decades, told KARE-TV on Tuesday before the ...
A 2019 Associated Press investigation into dams across the country found that the Rapidan Dam was in fair condition and there likely would be loss of property if it failed. But that same year, the ...
Broken Down Dam (formerly the Fergus Falls Hydro Dam [1] or Fergus Falls City Light Station [2]) was a concrete hydroelectric gravity dam on the Otter Tail River in Otter Tail County, Minnesota in the United States. Constructed in 1908 to supply power to the nearby town of Fergus Falls, the dam suddenly failed on September 24, 1909. Collapse of ...