The first explosive charge at the bridge rang out like a starting gun, followed by the ratatat drumbeat of smaller explosions. The smoke cleared, revealing the concrete and steel beams of County Road ...

(KEYC) - More than seven months after closing during last June’s historic flood event, the County Road 9 Bridge over the Blue Earth River is no more ... 2024 caused severe flooding that breached the ...

State money may soon be on the way to help tear out the Rapidan Dam after it partially failed following severe flooding last summer. Blue Earth County officials have been working to secure funding ...

A Twin Cities engineering firm hired to design the demise of the Rapidan Dam expects it to disappear ... that ripped away a bank of the Blue Earth River on the dam’s west side on June 24.

Tim Walz braved the afternoon cold on Thursday to return to the Rapidan Dam and outline his ... flooding that resulted in the Blue Earth River carving a route around the debris-clogged dam.

A thunderous boom and a large billow of dark-gray smoke rising in the air marked the quick demise of steel beams that had held up the Blue Earth County 9 bridge just upstream from the Rapidan Dam.