LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — The Corps of Engineers is still waiting for a really big winter storm to test new sediment-control measures on the Toutle River near Mount St. Helens.
The corps used $3.5 million in federal stimulus money for pilings and weirs that were built last summer to slow the river’s current. The corps built 14 of the “cross valley structures” near the Camp Baker logging camp destroyed by the volcano in 1980.
The Daily News of Longview reports the corps is looking for new ways to control sediment or it may have to spend more to raise the sediment-retention dam that was built on the river after the big eruption.
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Information from: The Daily News, http://www.tdn.com
