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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150519:04:03:00

nearby to mt. st. helen s what was in the air eventually subsided. it was what happened on the ground that even 35 years later they are still having to cope with because the largest landslide in recorded history physically changed their world. i mean when the top of that mountain blew off and the whole northside collapsed, the debris from that in less than ten minutes filled an ajade gent river valley it is filled 25 square miles of that river valley to an average depth of 150 feet. in less than ten minutes. imagine taking this huge river valley and fi&ing it with debris that is the height of a 12-15 story building. 25 square miles and it all happens in less than ten minutes. one of the rivers that flows through that part of washington state is the mighty mighty columbia river. the mt. st. helen s eruption basically stopped the columbia river. it flung more than a billion cubic feet of sediment rock and

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150519:04:06:00

earth. it moved rivers. it turned a mountain into a crater. 35 years later, it is still posing challenges. it the seattle times though today does have one it s remarkable article. and it notes one bright spot basically in the mt. st. helen s aftermath which is about that little town of castle rock. seattle times notes today that the little town has finally figured out something to do with some of that volcanic sand and ash that buried them 35 years ago. volcanic sand is useful for things like playing fields and sand traps on golf courses and for some construction projects at a small scale. now the city of castle rock is managing its sediment pile by selling its volcanic sand. the town is earning not a ton of money, thousands of dollars in some years tens it of thousands of dollars selling its dredge, selling its dredge sediment sand

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150519:04:04:00

landslide stuff, mud into that river. to get the columbia river back open again to get the other smaller rivers that were just inundated and buried under all of this ash and sand and mud, the army corps of engineers started dredging that stuff out almost immediately. that dredging process went on for years after mt. st. helen s erupted in 19 0. the seattle times looks back today and says that the amount of stuff that they dredged out of the rivers after mt. empty st. helen s erupted was enough material to build a 12-lane highway from new york city to san francisco. 12 lanes. they dredged all that stuff to keep the rivers going. and they piled it up on banks next to the rivers. in the little town of castle rock washington the dredge piles were dozens and dozens of acres. it basically created this moon scape of this dredged up ash and

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100217:01:01:00

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100217:06:55:15

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