Rapidan Dam: A Minnesota dam is on the brink of collapse after flooding
A dam in southern Minnesota is in “imminent failure condition,” according to local authorities, as communities across the Upper Midwest continue to deal with major flooding from heavy rains… The county added that they had first been notified of “accumulating debris” at the dam Sunday. Workers from Blue Earth County Public Works, the emergency management agency, and the sheriff’s office are actively monitoring the dam… The Blue Earth River cut around the west side of the dam, emergency management said, carrying damaging debris in its wake and causing power outages. In a Monday evening update, the county noted that although there was a “partial failure on the west abutment,” the “dam is still intact” and there are currently no plans for a “mass evacuation.”
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