some 27 million gallons of water drained from the lagoon and a platform constructed for emergency operations collapsed into the sludge pit and buried the broken pipe in tons of rubble. all that material went into the pipe. that platform collapsed into the pipe and plugged it. ta-da! that was their fix. total collapse. that was how they stopped the spill. that's how they stopped the third largest coal ash spill in the country days into it. and the guy quoted in that article there from the charlotte news and on server who's explaining to lawmakers that's how they finally got the pipe shut down, he's one of the staff members of the pat mccrory administration who's had their personnel records subpoenaed along with the last batch of 18 subpoenas out to mccrory staffers asking them to report to federal prosecutors whether they ever exchanged money or things of value with duke energy since they've been employees of the mccrory administration supposedly overseeing that company while that company unleashed the third largest coal