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

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

Earlier this week, authorities said the Rapidan Dam near Mankato faced an "imminent threat" of collapse, but later they said an abutment had partially failed. The river swelled after an onslaught ...

A preliminary schedule was presented, but the dates remain subject to circumstances such as funding and regulatory permitting ...

Removal of the Rapidan Dam could cost from $59 million to $75 million, according to an estimate by Barr Engineering in August. Surveying and mapping at the dam is set to take place throughout 2025 ...

Researchers are tracking how much sediment has been excavated since the river cut its new path. They hope to share the ...

The Rapidan Dam near Mankato will likely survive this flood. But what about the next? Destructive flooding in 2019 and 2020 had previously left the 114-year-old hydroelectric plant inoperable and ...

We look at the meteorology behind what caused the flooding, the historic Dam Store and its move to Mankato, the flooding ...

Days later, the Mankato area made national news as the usually calm Blue Earth River gushed around the century-old Rapidan Dam, which partially failed June 24, 2024.

Rapidan Dam Store to replace former Wagon Wheel Cafe 00:24 MANKATO, Minn. — A beloved family store lost during the flooding in southern Minnesota this summer is reopening in Mankato.

Barr Engineering says it plans to begin removal of the Rapidan Dam west of Mankato in 2027. The firm was awarded a $1.47 million contract from the Blue Earth County Board on Tuesday.