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When a Lake Vanished: The 14‑Inch Hole That Ate Louisiana
When a Lake Vanished: The 14‑Inch Hole That Ate Louisiana
A tranquil ten-foot-deep lake disappeared into the earth in a single afternoon, driven by a fourteen-inch drill that breached a mined-out salt chamber and set off a runaway chemical collapse - how did a tiny hole trigger a catastrophe that reversed a canal and drained an entire lake? Dive into the single unresolved question: was the rig in the wrong place, or were the mine maps wrong?
In this episode, we tell what happened on the morning of November 20, 1980, the sequence of events on Lake Peigneur and in the Diamond Crystal salt mine…
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