What happened to Minnesota’s Rapidan Dam? What to know about its flooding and partial failure

MINNEAPOLIS – 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, wrecked a substation and washed away part of a riverbank. A home teetered on the edge of an eroded slope as floodwaters rushed underneath. Earlier this … Continue reading What happened to Minnesota’s Rapidan Dam? What to know about its flooding and partial failure