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What happened to Minnesota’s Rapidan Dam? Here’s what to know about its flooding and partial failure
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The visuals were stunning: Water from the Blue Earth River surged around a southern Minnesota dam, carrying a shipping container with it as it toppled utility poles ...
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Minnesota’s Rapidan Dam in danger of failure
(NewsNation) — The Rapidan Dam in Blue Earth County, Minnesota, is in “imminent failure condition” according to authorities, who have warned residents to be prepared to evacuate. No ...
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Drone surveys help scientists understand impact of Rapidan Dam ‘avulsive failure’
Documenting and researching this type of dam failure is a way for researchers to help get data out to public officials and ...
Historians call on lawmakers to extend $1 million study of 'hidden hazard' below St. Anthony Falls
A 148-year-old concrete wall sits under the Mississippi River to protect the falls and agencies are studying its condition to ...
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Minnesota Dam Breached in Devastating Midwest Flooding
Severe flooding caused the partial failure of the Rapidan Dam in Minnesota, after days of heavy rainfall across the Midwest forced mass evacuations. Photo: Minnesota Department of Public Safety/AP ...
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MSU, others looking at how river is changing after Rapidan Dam failure
“We’ve been flying drones repeatedly on swaths upstream and downstream, looking at the changes in the river since the dam ...