MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC) - Maddie Paul gives us a look at the earth wall levee that is currently being built by the city of North Mankato on Lookout Dr. and Lee Blvd. The levee is expected to be 34.6 ft.

NORTH MANKATO — North Mankato is beginning to plan deconstruction of its earth levee in response to subsiding river levels. The levee at Lookout Drive and Lee Boulevard is 34.6-feet high ...

FEMA is issuing new flood maps next year and plans to list neighborhoods near the site as vulnerable to flooding if a permanent fix to the levee gap isn’t completed. For 1,641 North Mankato ...

NORTH MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC) - The city of North Mankato has started to deconstruct the temporary levee at the bottom of Lee Blvd and Lookout Drive. According to a release from the city ...

North Mankato, for example ... The cities also have plans if the levee is breached or over-topped. Mankato has not stockpiled any filled sandbags but it does have clay available that it could ...

The city of North Mankato declared a flood emergency, closing the Lookout/Lee Boulevard intersection to allow crews to build the temporary earth wall levee in this area. In recent years the dam ...

The levee system is built to withstand a river ... and entrance ramps on Highway 169 at Lookout Drive in Mankato and North Mankato have been closed as officials construct an earthen dike, or ...

To make new maps, FEMA is requiring levee owners to show their flood-protection systems still work. It could cost Mankato and North Mankato hundreds of thousands of dollars. The work used to be ...

On South Avenue in North Mankato, residents in flood damage cleanup mode are overworked, like many of their sump pumps. “It was running for three days every 32 seconds,” said John Miller ...