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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.
Much of a southern Minnesota house collapsed into the Blue Earth River on Tuesday night after several days' storms led to flooding. After declaring the dam in "imminent failure condition" on ...
Blue Earth County officials say the collapse ... If there is a full collapse of the dam, county leaders say the river could rise another 2 feet or so. There is a levee system protecting the ...
The Blue Earth River has cut around the west side of the dam, carrying debris and causing power outages, the county said Monday, noting that there was a “partial failure on the west abutment.” ...
The water quality in the Blue Earth River has deteriorated significantly since the Rapidan Dam in Rapidan, Minn., suffered a partial failure and sent nearly 12 million cubic yards of sediment ...
Video shows the white-frame house falling into the flood-swollen Blue Earth River near Mankato on Tuesday night. The Rapidan Dam’s west abutment failed Monday, sending the river around the dam ...
The home nestled against the banks of the Blue Earth River in southern Minnesota has partially collapsed into the roaring river amid the partial failure of the Rapidan Dam that has led to massive ...
a home on the western side of the dam has fallen into the Blue Earth River. 15 actors who made the biggest comebacks in Hollywood history When to Stop Mowing Your Lawn for the Season A La Niña ...
Several buildings and roads along Minnesota’s Blue Earth River have been destroyed by floodwaters following a dam breach Monday, with residents in low-lying areas warned to evacuate the shores.
MANKATO, Minnesota — A portion of the home closest to the Rapidan Dam tumbled into the serving Blue Earth River Tuesday evening. Blue Earth County officials said in a very brief news release ...
BLUE EARTH COUNTY, Minn. (WREX) — In southern Minnesota, the gradual damage happening to the structure of the Rapidan Dam has become one of the most popular viewed videos on social media.
Part of a house perched on the edge of the Blue Earth River in Minnesota collapsed into raging waters as deadly flooding that hit the Midwest threatened the nearby Rapidan Dam, which was built in ...