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'Finally': Last home destroyed in 2019 floods removed from Dell Rapids
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'Finally': Last home destroyed in 2019 floods removed from Dell Rapids

City, neighbors win judgement to demolish nuisance property ridden with foxes, raccoons, muskrats & rats, according to court filings

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Aug 29, 2024
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DELL RAPIDS — Rick Williams and Judy Peters don’t have to look at a dilapidated home abandoned after historic flooding along the Big Sioux River five years ago anymore — or the critters that had taken the place over.

“It’s finally going away,” Peters told The Dakota Scout, referring to a house next door to her southern Dell Rapids home that was demolished Wednesday morning at the order of the city.

But razing the structure at 105 N. Orleans Avenue — among more than a dozen residences in the neighborhood ravaged by flooding in September 2019— came after a years-long battle between City Hall, the property owner, and neighbors who quickly grew tired of looking at a tarped doorway, broken windows, and a revolving cast of foxes, raccoons, muskrats, and rats that had replaced human residents following the flood event.

Abandoned baby laid to rest, accompanied by police escort

Abandoned baby laid to rest, accompanied by police escort

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August 28, 2024
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