Concerns growing about possible bridge collapse near Rapidan Dam in Minnesota

The Rapidan Dam store along with the owners home was lost during the chaos. Now, questions are piling up as to what the future holds for the dam, and the bridge.

[@frankblangeard8865]

The video doesn't really show the scour at the end of the bridge. It shows the dam. It shows the bridge at the end where there is no scour.

[@EattheApple666]

Nature taking the river back.

[@tringuyen7519]

Dam has to be demolished. A new dam will need to be redesigned given the soil erosion & new river landscape. Anything less is inviting future disaster.

[@steven4315]

The river has cut a new channel. No need to do anything with the dam. No need to build a new dam. The reservoir was silted up anyway. The bank of the new channel will stabilize.

[@mprooveit3588]

The river worked ok before the dam. Why not try it that way for a few decades?

[@notme9976]

@@steven4315 Well at the very least the remaining junk should be removed. While mother nature took care of a bulk of the work, there is still much to do.

[@steven4315]

@@notme9976 It's just a bypassed dam. Once the river bank has stabilized, build a new bridge, if needed.

[@babbalonian2]

Fck, can we say anything without it being ghosted?..They should fix it themselves using their own county funds. Maybe the next time they will see the coincidences of doing nothing.

[@WinthropWarriors]

Nobody has done anything since this whole debacle started, so why start now?

[@maopticallabtech]

We don't want to do anything....Government at work.

[@jimw1615]

"We don't want to do anything . . . ". The prime direction and culture in most government agencies. He couldn't have chosen better words to describe what has gone on here.

[@mprooveit3588]

They did tear down the store, so there's that...

[@dogyerf21]

When it rains sometimes you have with to

[@christopherwelch136]

Oh it happened.

[@xxdmdeschamps72]

So what your saying is we have no plan.

[@JamesWilliams-gp6ek]

If your primary focus was safety as the supervisor says, then the dam would have been upgraded and reinforced over the last decades or removed altogether before the washout and failure. Now you are looking for a federal bailout. Any insurance company would have said no because proper maintenance was not completed. Why should the rest of the country pay for negligence on the county and states part?

[@toppedoff]

the dam store was safe.. why tear it down?

[@mprooveit3588]

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."

[@nv1493]

Do these government muppets actually listen to themselves?

[@badneed]

Another #BuildBackBetter Project 🤷‍♂️

[@VinniePepperoni]

Nothing burger to fill time