Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150519:04:05:00
Sand and sediment that nobody knew what to do with, but they had to do the dredging to try to save the town. just above castle rock is a lake called spirit lake and spirit lake took a brunt of this eruption. spirit lake had so many of sediment dumped into it by the mt. st. helen's eruption that the surface level of spirit lake rose by 210 feet. and that's up above castle rock. and so that nightmare, that potential nightmare right is looming over the town of castle rock. and it still is. they eventually built a tunnel to channel some outflow from that lake so it would loom quite so dangerously ...