Posted on 02/19/2017 5:41:37 PM PST by exDemMom
"Pretty, but not very solid. Cement walls could be higher/more reliable. C'mon dam, you had one job."--Noah Lantz, one star
"I here the spillway is great right now for white water rafting. Watch out for street poles down stream though"--David Lansing, five stars
"I give this dam 5 stars, because it's a shining beacon of the kind of California doctrine that they want for the rest of the country!"--Richard Howell, five stars
"Dam does a great job at showcasing American ingenuity, the advances we have collectively made in water management, materials science, and our fundamentally negligent attitudes towards maintenance and risk-assessment.
I took off 1 star due to its inability to, you know, hold back water and prevent critical flooding."--Richard Mackie, four stars.
(Excerpt) Read more at google.com ...
This is a selection of the reviews given to Oroville Dam in recent days. I was looking at Google maps to see exactly where the dam is located (I have family in CA), and found these reviews. Some of them are gems!
Funny....
Things are getting worse with the Oroville dam and the rain isn’t going to stop until Wednesday.
Live coverage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX83qSatoOo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7Oa4OWFPGE
This is what I saw just a few minutes ago. It was to be a live shot and there seems to be water going off the main spillway to the south and eroding taking place.
It’s going to have to pick up its game if it wants to continue being a dam.
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If I lived downstream of that, I’d have been done packing up my most treasured possessions and finding somewhere to wait it out.
I have a beef with that graphic circulating... it places the responsibility for the failure with federal regulators by misrepresenting the facts. The federal regulators did NOT reject improvements to the eSpillway, the refused to require the state to do so as a condition of re-licensing. The federal regulator does did not prevent the CA DWR from making improvements or from performing other necessary improvements, repairs, and maintenance. They left CA to prioritize infrastructure spending as they saw fit, letting CA prioritizing spending at the Oroville damn as they saw fit, given other spending priorities... CA just chose unwisely.
Dam poor spelling.
1 star. Dam failure would result in children and minorities being hardest hit.
I don't think that's good.
You’re the only one that noticed!
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