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The state has yet to make good on a promise to help fix the Rapidan Dam, which partially failed one year ago this summer.
Just over a year since the partial failure of the Rapidan Dam saw the change of the Blue Earth River and its surrounding ...
When a dam breaks, it takes more than bulldozers and blueprints to repair the waterway. It demands engineering inventiveness, ...
A preliminary schedule was presented, but the dates remain subject to circumstances such as funding and regulatory permitting ...
Researchers are tracking how much sediment has been excavated since the river cut its new path. They hope to share the information with other communities with aging, at-risk dams.
The Rapidan Dam failure gives scientists an unusual opportunity to study how rivers erode through land, Larson said, something that nature typically takes thousands or even millions of years to do.
For more than 80 years, the dam spanning the Rapidan River at Rapidan Mill has blocked fish from migrating upstream. The Rapidan Fish Passage Project is a study that could yield dam modifications ...
Rapidan group awarded $7.9M NOAA grant Would be used for fish passage project to remove all of part of the Rapidan Mill dam ...
Nearly a year ago, flooding at the Rapidan Dam destroyed a family's home and shut down their long-time restaurant. Now, they're starting over in a new location.
Breaking The News One year later, those connected to the Rapidan Dam still hope to rebuild the area The owners of the dam store have reopened in Mankato.
One year ago the flooded Blue Earth River caused a partial failure of the Rapidan Dam, about 15 minutes south of Mankato.
But the Rapidan Dam will always be their home. June 24 will mark one year since a partial failure of the dam’s west abutment drew attention from around the world.