The state has yet to make good on a promise to help fix the Rapidan Dam, which partially failed one year ago this summer.

When a dam breaks, it takes more than bulldozers and blueprints to repair the waterway. It demands engineering inventiveness, ...

Just over a year since the partial failure of the Rapidan Dam saw the change of the Blue Earth River and its surrounding ...

During a Tuesday work session, The Blue Earth County Board of Commissioners heard preliminary cost estimates, schedules, ...

The dam is approximately 475 feet (145 meters) long, and 87 feet (27 meters) high.A 2019 Associated Press investigation into dams across the country found that the Rapidan Dam was in fair ...

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The Rapidan Dam is located on the Blue Earth River in Rapidan Township — about 14 miles south of Mankato. The dam is situated just north of the County Road 9 Bridge.

Officials are continuing to monitor the Rapidan Dam in southern Minnesota after a partial failure on Monday. The dam suffered a side breach due to high water flows which sent water rushing over the ...

This drone photo provided by AW Aerial shows a home as it teeters before partially collapsing into the Blue Earth River at the Rapidan Dam in Rapidan, Minn., Tuesday, June 25, 2024.

The Rapidan Dam in Blue Earth County, Minnesota is in "imminent failure condition," according to the county government's official Facebook page.According to the Facebook post, Blue Earth County ...

At Rapidan Dam, the people around Barnes saw the disaster unfolding, too. Jeremy Jordan, who lives nearby, says he used to work on the dam’s power plant as a fill-in employee.

Construction of the Rapidan Dam was finished in 1910 and is described by the county as a hollow concrete dam, founded on sandstone bedrock in a steep, U-shaped valley.