After the Rapidan Dam failed last summer and the Blue Earth River carved a new course through Minnesota Valley, researchers are using drones to survey the area and monitor changes that affect the ...

RAPIDAN, Minn. — The water quality in the Blue Earth River has deteriorated significantly since the Rapidan Dam suffered a partial failure and sent nearly 12 million cubic yards of sediment behind the ...

Thousands of critical water barriers across America are slowly disappearing into the earth beneath them—a silent structural ...

It was something few people thought could really happen. For 112 years the massive Rapidan Dam stood strong on the Blue Earth River. Then on June 24, with near record-level river flows and a large ...

MANKATO — U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith announced a $5 million federal grant to help southern Minnesota recover from the devastating 2024 flooding that severely damaged infrastructure across ...

Researchers detected subtle shifts in the height of all 41 structures they studied in 13 states and Puerto Rico.

Attorneys for about 2,000 Midland-area residents criticized what they called the state's delaying tactics in court five years after the May 19, 2020, failure of the Edenville Dam, which flooded ...

Embankment dam breach analysis encompasses the investigation and modelling of failure mechanisms in earthen structures that retain water. Research in this field addresses both the physical and ...