Rapidan Dam near Mankato will likely survive this flood. But what about the next?

Destructive floods in 2019 and 2020 had previously left the 114-year-old hydroelectric plant inoperable and county officials grappling with the choice of spending at least $15 million to bring the dam into working order — with little hope of making enough money from selling power — or shelling out $82 million to remove it.