MCGREGOR Minn. — The Army Corps of Engineers will celebrate the completion of the Sandy Lake Dam rehabilitation project near the Mississippi River headwaters with a ribbon cutting ceremony Wednesday. Time: 1 p.m. The $5.3 million project upgraded the 130-year-old dam structure. This included replacing a deteriorated bulkhead wall and six main water control gates and installing a new slide gate in the log sluice chamber. The Sandy lake campground opened May 5, following a two-year closure due to the rehabilitation project.
Sandy Lake Dam. One of the first reservoir systems in the country,