This is what Lake Oroville looked like during the drought

KCRA ^ | Feb 13, 2017

[Mr. Jeeves]

Well, soon the city of Oroville will be renamed Lake Brown - and the governor’s legacy will be cemented forever.

[FrogMom]

The town of Alma is completely submerged

Where is that? Google maps can't find it.

[samiam5]

Every drought ends in a flood.
When ours ended a couple of years ago, a lot of reservoirs were at 5-7% capacity. It rained so much that in two weeks, almost every lake was full and running over.
If we hadn’t been so dry, all that water would have been a disaster.

[ncfool]

Have the illegals living in the sanctuary city of SF bused up to the dam area and work with the corp of engineers to fix them dams. Instead of giving them welfare make them work.

[Vendome]

It’s under Lexington Resevoir, just south of Los Gatos.

The towns of Alma and Lexington were flooded around 60 years ago when Lexington Resivour was constructed.

When I was a kid, you could see remnants of some buildings.

It’s an old area joke whenever it rains....

[zot]

Thanks for the ping. It really was DRY!

[tumblindice]

The Democrats are breaking so many federal immigration laws now, why would they hesitate to break another law?

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/6304

“a public purpose of support or stimulation authorized by a law of the United States”

[JimRed]

They should look at an alternate means to lower dam level even if it requires blasting elsewhere or a drainage tunnel.

There is a pond near my home that was created with an earthen dam, probably in the mid-1800s, and at one time had a mill at the outflow. About twenty years ago a storm overtopped and breached the dam and most of the water was lost, affecting several properties downstream. When the dam was rebuilt they installed concrete culverts under it, attached to a concrete box in the lake topping out few feet lower than the top of the dam. So when the water level rises too high it overtops the box and bypasses under the dam to the creek below. It has cured the problem so far, and we’ve seen some substantial storms since those days.

It starts draining as soon as water reaches the edge so it precludes overtopping the dam so a spillway would seldom if ever be used. Something the size of Oroville would need larger ones, and probably several of them

[JimRed]

All is well now but nature has its own cycle that no man can control.

Tell that to the AGW freaks!

[dr_lew]

I just looked it up in Wikipedia

[dr_lew]

I guess that's Lumpkin Road. The Enterprise Bridge is identifiable in a Google Maps Photo. The drought looks even worse in the Street View from the bridge, as of Jan 2009. ( The date doesn't show in the link but it does when I click into street view from Google Maps. )