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Mitch Jensen, 18, left, and Karson Kromminga, 17, both of Monticello, sit on a dock and watch Lake Delhi empty out near Kromminga's parent's lake home Saturday evening, July 24, 2010. The Lake Delhi dam in eastern Iowa failed earlier in the day as rising floodwater from the Maquoketa River ate a 30-foot-wide hole in the earthen dam, draining the recreational lake and threatening the small downtstream town of Hopkinton.

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Mitch Jensen, 18, left, and Karson Kromminga, 17, both of Monticello, sit on a dock and watch Lake Delhi empty out near Kromminga's parent's lake home Saturday evening, July 24, 2010. The Lake Delhi dam in eastern Iowa failed earlier in the day as rising floodwater from the Maquoketa River ate a 30-foot-wide hole in the earthen dam, draining the recreational lake and threatening the small downtstream town of Hopkinton.