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Plan to avoid catastrophic Spirit Lake flood would lower lake 40 feet, cost nearly $300 million - The Reflector (opens the original)
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• A catastrophic break of the Spirit Lake debris blockage could release 314,000 acre-feet of water (32 billion gallons, or the volume of 48,000 Olympic swimming pools ) and 2.4 billion cubic yards of sediment. • Projected worst case mudflow heights are 60 feet at Castle Rock; 30 to 40 feet at Toutle, Silver Lake, Kelso, and Longview; and 15 to 20 feet at Toledo (The mudflow would back up the Cowlitz, as it did during the volcano’s eruption 46 years ago.) • If the drainage tunnel failed, it would
Plan to avoid catastrophic Spirit Lake flood would lower lake 40 feet, cost nearly $300 million - The Daily Chronicle (opens the original)
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Editor’s note: This article first appeared in Lower Columbia Currents, which reports news and opinion about Southwest Washington. It is published, reported and written by award-winning journalist Andre Stepankowsky. Learn more and subscribe by visiting the Lower Columbia Currents Substack. A new federal plan would lower Spirit Lake 40 feet, construct a second drainage tunnel and repair an existing one as a hedge against future catastrophic flooding. The plan would cost hundreds of millions of do
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