Officials provide update on partial dam failure in Minnesota

Really was more of a partial failure of the West of Bodmin as the water continued to run around the West side of the dam and it's resulted in additional erosion and slope cutting. As you can see, we lost the Excel energy power substation as well as a large park storage building and materials that were stored in there. And as you can see now the private residence to the West is threatened by the flows and by the undercutting and slope cutting that's happening. The flows peaked yesterday. At 34,800 cubic feet per second, currently they're flowing at 33,000 cubic feet per second. With that being said, that makes this the second largest flood ever of record at the rapid and dam. The previous second largest flood of the record happened in 2019 that caused significant damage to the dam. It's still a high level of threat and concern because again, this is still exceeding the second largest flood ever of record passing through the dam, but it's it's slightly decreasing. However, it's somewhat flatlined at this point what I've observed. The FERC is deemed as a low threat dam because of the potential threat to life and property downstream of the dam. There are a handful of residences that were notified in our in our communication and our protocol for our emergency action plan. They've been notified. The volume of water is honestly probably less of a concern. It's more of an environmental concern if the dam were to totally breach because of the volume of sediment that's withheld upstream of the dam and people believe if the dam had a catastrophic failure. That a wall of seven foot water would coming and social media picked up on that right away and we played catch up the entire day with media and social media trying to get that figured out. And so the water level in a catastrophic event would not be that significant.