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

On Tuesday, the Blue Earth County Board of Commissioners was presented an estimate of how much it would take to safely remove ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 south central Minnesota suffered a partial failure on Monday, June 24. The white house on the edge of the Blue Earth River has since fallen into the river.

Two former workers of the Rapidan Dam with 23 years of combined experience say last month's partial failure was not just an Act of God, insisting instead that the breach could have been prevented.

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.

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.