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Dams in distress: Partial failure in Minnesota offers a nationwide warning
29 June 2024 at 09:00
The partial failure of Minnesota’s Rapidan Dam sheds like on the almost 4,100 dams in the U.S. that are categorized at the same risk level and condition – or worse.
A home teeters bon the brink of collapsing into the Blue Earth River at the Rapidan Dam in Mankato, Minn., on, June 25, 2024. Heavy rains cause high water levels at the Rapidan Dam near Mankato, Minnesota, on Monday. Views of the Rapidan Dam on Sept. 6, 2011, and on June 26, after floodwaters overcame parts of the structure. A riverside home seen on Tuesday before it partially collapsed, near at the Rapidan Dam in Minnesota. Floodwaters continue to carve a channel around the Rapidan Dam on Thursday.
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