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 Oroville Dam is the highest in the nation.
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Ut oh...
Prayers UP
The area on the west side of Modesto floods quite a bit. I was there a number of years ago when it flooded.
Flow seems to have bottomed out and is slowly rising at Merrimack, a few miles upstream of the reservoir on the middle fork of Feather River.
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/river/featherStages.html
from another forum....
I am watching FOX40 and there was a reporter at the bottom of the spillway and there was a lot of dirty water coming over that big rock. First shot it was clear then they cut to another scene, when they came back it was that way. Span of about 15sec in between.
A large spaceship from a neighboring galaxy is expected to land there later tonight.
could someone post these pics here...live shot of clean water then muddy over big rock at bottom
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Or the Delta Smelt.
Overnight prayer for all those involved . . .
I think that post-event, if the entire structure survives, they need to develop another way to move water quickly and safely. Well, obviously, they need to fix the main spillway. But they also need to re-think the emergency spillway and perhaps add a gate to it so that they can spill at a modest amount long before water pours over the top.
Last time I was at the delta, it smelt pretty fishy.
Re: 1306 - which power lines are they fixin’ to cut? I know that there’s a plan to relocate a couple of towers on the line crossing the river right around where the spillway is emptying out. And I think part of that is already removed. If it’s the lines to the switchyard at the dam, then you can kiss future power generation goodbye until they relocate and re-connect the line.
I think that the plan is to open things up for generating again, but I know that there’s some dredging work that needs to be done along the river first.
Any digital video production experts here? Looks to me like it might be exposure related... like maybe the sun peeked through and overexposed the water in the clip that looks clean? Even the river as it exits the pic is brown in the one pic, as it is in most pics... but in the clean one, even the river looks clean there, and it shouldn’t as there is still lots of turbulence where the spillway dumps into the river that kicks up sediment.
you can also see a small muddy stream to the left(on the left of what was the main spillway towards the bottom) in the second shot .
it was raining and cloudy all day
FWIW.
I would hope that someone on this forum has all ready pointed this out. But short of reading every post about the Oroville Dam situation and why this is a very real disaster in the making, I’ll point out a few things.
Water, is a very difficult thing to control.
Water, contrary to popular belief, does in fact flow “uphill”.
The failure of the spillway is just one aspect where the water will migrate, literally up hill, being absorbed and pulled into the earthen dam until gravity takes over. That, combined with rain water on the surface could reach the point were the entire hillside that was designed to hold back the weight of the water in the lake, just lets loose to the forces of gravity.
If the rain forecast is expected to be up stream from the dam itself they may dodge a bullet. If however, they get rain locally, I’m afraid they will experience a mud slide that will be historic.
FWIW
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