After the dam suffered a partial failure, a home on the western side of the dam has fallen into the Blue Earth River. FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul Posted: June 26, 2024 | Last updated: June 26, 2024 ...

Water levels peaked Monday at 34,800 cubic feet per second, and Blue Earth County officials issued an imminent threat warning. Those figures make this flood the second largest in the dam’s history.

Rafferty said that comparing Blue Earth River samples taken June 26, just after the dam failure, to the 2007-2021 long-term statistics, preliminarily show that the maximum pollution values were ...

Much of a southern Minnesota house collapsed into the Blue Earth River on Tuesday night after several days' storms led to flooding.. Part of the home, which is located close to the Rapidan Dam ...

And areas of the Blue Earth River that were once between 15 and 20 feet deep are now between one and four. "The entire system's just being choked out," Hilgendorf said.

Above: The Blue Earth River contributes nearly half of the Minnesota River’s flow here, at the confluence. The potential to improve the health of both rivers now is substantial. Photos by Roy ...

- And that's where it gets the name Blue Earth River. Now, the native name for this river was Makato Osa Watapa, Makato, means Blue Earth, that's what the town Mankato is named after.

The house perched over the eroding Blue Earth River near the Rapidan Dam fell into the rain-swollen river Tuesday night, June 25. After torrential rainfall over the weekend, debris piled up ...

May 8—By Tim Krohn tkrohn@mankatofreepress.com MANKATO — A majority of the streams and lakes being monitored in the Blue Earth River Watershed continue to be plagued by sediment, bacteria and ...

A third of U.S. rivers have significantly changed color over the last 36 years, turning from blue to yellow and green, striking new images reveal. Researchers analyzed 235,000 satellite images ...