The Rapidan Dam failure gives scientists an unusual opportunity to study how rivers erode through land, Larson said, something that nature typically takes thousands or even millions of years to do.

"Old stores like that, it's hard to replace them," David Hruska said. "Almost makes you cry when you see that," ...

One year ago, the Rapidan Dam partially collapsed near Mankato due to heavy rainfall and flooding from storms.

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 ...

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 Rapidan Dam is located on the Blue Earth River in Rapidan Township — about 14 miles south of Mankato. The dam is situated just north of the County Road 9 Bridge.

At Rapidan Dam, the people around Barnes saw the disaster unfolding, too. Jeremy Jordan, who lives nearby, says he used to work on the dam’s power plant as a fill-in employee.

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.

There are more than 2,500 dams in Virginia – many built to mill wheat or wood. One of them is at the center of a controversial plan to restore fish habitat and bring back species that were once ...

Flooding at the Rapidan Dam near Mankato led to the destruction of the Hruska family house and the Rapidan Dam Store. County officials Ryan Thilges and Eric Weller, along with MSU professor Phil ...

RAPIDAN — Imagine a six-story building, perched precariously, inching its way across a narrow bridge, a churning river below. In 1949, that’s exactly what happened at the Rapidan Dam near Mankato.