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Emergency: California’s Oroville Dam Spillway Near Failure, Evacuations Ordered
Breitbart ^ | Feb 12, 2017 | Joel B. Pollak1

Posted on 02/12/2017 4:26:47 PM PST by janetjanet998

Edited on 02/12/2017 9:33:58 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

The California Department of Water Resources issued a sudden evacuation order shortly before 5 p.m. Sunday for residents near the Oroville Dam in northern California, warning that the dam’s emergency spillway would fail in the next 60 minutes.

The Oroville Dam is the highest in the nation.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: butte; california; dam; dwr; evacuation; lakeoroville; liveoroville; moonbeamcanyon; moonbeammadness; oroville; orovilledam; orovillelive; runaway; spillway; sutter; water; yuba
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To: janetjanet998

Uh oh. Someone who’s been keeping track of this and knows more than I do, please correct me if this is not the situation:
1. The main spillway was showing signs of erosion and they used the auxiliary spillway in addition to ease the pressure;

2. The auxiliary spillway is now showing signs of erosion and they opened the main one back up to ease that pressure.

3. Failure of the auxiliary spillway structure will result in no control whatever.

4. This would not constitute failure of the dam but would still be a very serious flooding situation.

5. The erosion in the main spillway is likely to get worse.

Is this the case? Could I get some expert comment, please?


41 posted on 02/12/2017 4:47:04 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: janetjanet998

I lived in Live Oak from 1984-1995...Downstream of Oroville Dam...I went up there a couple of times when they were releasing over 65k of water over the original spillway that now has a hole in it...When I read yesterday about that I thot dang if that Dam Fails its got 3 and half million acre feet of water it will flood thru oroville...Live oak and all th eway into downtown Sacratomato...Pray for those people below the dam!
Freegards
LEX


42 posted on 02/12/2017 4:47:25 PM PST by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: janetjanet998

The Left will use this dam failure to push for NO NEW DAMS

I’ve worked controlling water for 40 years and there are 2 places to never build or buy a home.

In a floodplain...whether designated or not

And below a dam.

That being said, I hope every is safe they and get out while the gettin’s good. This is far from over, since the ground below the damaged spillway and below the emergency spillway is now saturated an likely unstable


43 posted on 02/12/2017 4:48:07 PM PST by digger48
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To: pollywog

Yup time to pray for those poor souls. It is going to blow. I looked at the spillway they were using before. 40 foot erosion if not more under the concrete spillway. It is way too close to the main damn too so it this goes the whole thing goes.


44 posted on 02/12/2017 4:48:49 PM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools. Go Trump!)
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To: cloudmountain

You are a loon.


45 posted on 02/12/2017 4:49:21 PM PST by Dave W
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To: Big Red Badger

If Jerry Brown needs money, let him sell some of his organs (e.g., kidneys, lungs, liver, heart, etc.)


46 posted on 02/12/2017 4:49:42 PM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: GreenLanternCorps
The emergency spillway for that dam is a few hundred yards to the northwest of the dam, over solid earth.

That "solid earth" is being washed away

see this :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq_CJNoIdvo

47 posted on 02/12/2017 4:50:40 PM PST by spokeshave (In the Thatch Weave,..Trump's Wing Man is Truth)
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To: janetjanet998

http://www.krcrtv.com/news/local/butte/evacuation-orders-for-low-levels-of-oroville/330519833


48 posted on 02/12/2017 4:50:47 PM PST by 4Liberty (DEMOCRATS- Exporting Jobs, Importing Votes.)
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To: vette6387

“You have to wonder just what these a$$holes have for brains.”

Their so called brains are nothing but bad science connected with Gorebull warming.

Big money down South probably told them not to release that water!

Your graph would show a 6th grader, that they needed to be releasing water like they did at Folsom last year.


49 posted on 02/12/2017 4:50:48 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Our concerned trolls/NeverTrumpsters, don't know to celebrate winning as they buy into fake nws!)
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To: janetjanet998

That is horrible... I hope you are safe and same for all in harms way. I can’t even begin to imagine.. and the animals, too.


50 posted on 02/12/2017 4:51:25 PM PST by SueRae (An administration like no other.)
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To: GreenLanternCorps

The emergency spillway for that dam is a few hundred yards to the northwest of the dam, over solid earth. Water over the spillway cannot cause the dam to fail.

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The dam is not failing. The emergency spillway is failing. It says that pretty clear in the title.


51 posted on 02/12/2017 4:51:39 PM PST by kara37
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To: janetjanet998

“THIS IS NOT A DRILL. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. REPEAT THIS IS NOT A
DRILL.”

Damn...


52 posted on 02/12/2017 4:51:46 PM PST by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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To: lexington minuteman 1775

SackoTomatoes!!!

That is Our Capital!!!


53 posted on 02/12/2017 4:52:22 PM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Billthedrill

No expert comment, but here is a link to the National Weather Service alert, which says “dam failure.”

https://alerts.weather.gov/cap/wwacapget.php?x=CA12583E6190EC.FlashFloodWarning.12583E70CB5CCA.STOFFWSTO.b2f8e6f9a3a1bfb07b329e38d3011d77


54 posted on 02/12/2017 4:52:29 PM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: janetjanet998; Karl Spooner; mewzilla; LucyT; SE Mom; WildHighlander57

PING!


55 posted on 02/12/2017 4:53:14 PM PST by maggief
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To: janetjanet998

What is it? 210,000 acre feet of water above that dam? Thats a hell of a lot of water and it will go all the way to the ocean.


56 posted on 02/12/2017 4:53:34 PM PST by crz
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To: janetjanet998
Which will they blame first?

Trump's budget cuts, the forced expulsion of the gay Muslim Mexicans who maintained the dam, or global warming?

Or is this still due to Bush, since Nancy Pelosi just said there wasn't a single thing the Congressional Democrats could work with Bush on?

57 posted on 02/12/2017 4:54:07 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: janetjanet998
Oroville Dam water levels and flows
58 posted on 02/12/2017 4:54:15 PM PST by snarkpup (Socialism causes the worst people to become in charge, if they aren't already.)
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70

Thank you, sir.


59 posted on 02/12/2017 4:54:16 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: maggief
Earlier today ...


60 posted on 02/12/2017 4:54:34 PM PST by maggief
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