Posted on 02/17/2017 7:12:52 PM PST by keat
comes with the storm due Monday and Tuesday, which could drop close to 5 inches of rain in the watershed above the dam in western Tuolumne County.
“We are required to open the spillway when Don Pedro is at 830 elevation,” the spokesman said Friday. “With the current forecast, it shows it will be reaching 830 feet.”
McMillan was not certain what day the spillway gate would be opened, but more likely Tuesday. It would be the second time Don Pedro’s spillway has been activated in the history of the dam, which opened in 1971. “It is important to note the forecast is fluctuating hourly,” McMillan said.
TID officials notified officials with Stanislaus County Office of Emergency Services on Friday afternoon after running numbers on the weather forecast and potential runoff. Letting water run through the spillway protects the dam from serious damage.
Officials will start notifying residents in low-lying areas along the Tuolumne River in Modesto of the threat of flooding. Notifications will be made in the airport neighborhood, west Modesto and the Ninth Street area, said Sgt. Anthony Bejaran of the Sheriff’s Department.
The TID believes the water flow through the spillway will be less than the torrent in 1997, which caused massive flooding and destruction in Stanislaus and San Joaquin counties. The storms in 1997 were far heavier and warmer, melting a large amount of the Sierra snowpack, McMillan said.
The irrigation district, the co-owner of Don Pedro, will monitor the situation daily and provide updates. The district has to follow flood control protocols of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
With the reservoir 98-percent full, TID officials were confident of making it through the current storm, but focused their concern on a heavier storm after a break Sunday.
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“Uhm, ...the spillway flywheel is rusted shut, who do we call now?”
*facepalm*
It’s like deja vu all over again!
do you have current rainfall totals after this afternoon?
yes m’am, I’ll get them.
Somebody to pick up a case of PB Blaster, MAPP gas, and a ball peen!!!!
Only .34 at the lake. More importantly, heavy rain to the east, in the watershed. As much more to come.
There’s a big dam in Iraq that has that problem. It’s due to collapse right around now. Might kill a million.
that’s not bad. Central Sierras had 2” in just a few hours this afternoon.
If it does, we are not taking in any refugees. Disasters in other countries doesnt mean they won the lotto to come here.
Let tye peaceful muslim nations surrounding them help their islamic brothers and sisters, instead of just shrugging and saying its allahs will.
Boy, with almost this there is a ton of snow.
The news, come May/June will be more flooding...
Here’s the first part:
“Turlock Irrigation District said the spillway on Don Pedro Dam will be opened early next week if the forecasted rain from a large storm occurs.
TID spokesman Brandon McMillan said it’s all a matter of how much rain...”
Having often fished Don Pedro, I can tell you a 2.x million acre feet reservoir is enormous.
It’s good to see it full. Even though the little flood will reach my hometown.
I’m downstream (but not in the path)from Lake Isabella dam, which many years ago, sprung leaks. They have just kept the lake below the level of the leaks. It is an earthen dam. The Corp of Engineers have been studying a solution for years. Maybe they can get it repaired sometime in the next few decades.
The subsequent flooding from the failure of the Mosul Dam fulfills a Biblical
prophecy, or something.
Free Don Pedro from his white masters!
Register him to vote!
For real? What dam? Do you have a link?
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