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Posted on 02/15/2017 7:01:19 PM PST by nickcarraway
In Oregon, seven dams have been deemed unsatisfactory - one in Josephine County, another in Curry County.
Oregon Water Resources Department and Josephine County Parks say they know the McMullen Dam in Lake Selmac has problems. They have known for years.
"With the parks budget being just over $1 million, the cost of the dam itself is going to come in between {$1 million and $3 million] dollars to improve it," Josephine County Parks manager Sarah Wright said.
To get an 'unsatisfactory' result means the dam cannot contain or handle a moderate sized flood. At Lake Selmac, that's rare - even with the winter weather this year.
"We feel like, at [the Parks Department, the weather] was the worst we've seen in 10 years," Wright said. "Even with the amount of water we received this year, the dam acted exactly how it should and there was at no time a risk of it failing. We certainly do use our emergency spillway every winter, actually."
In that 2016 report, inspectors list the emergency spillway as one of the problems needing to be fixed. Because of the huge cost to repair or replace the dam, the Wright says there is no timetable for when McMullen dam will get out of the unsatisfactory stage. Wright also says before the dam would be toppled over or broken by high waters, it would most likely push the water onto the nearby roads instead.
Fishermen on the lake on Wednesday say they have never seen any problems with the dam.
"If the dam were not here, we would be river fishing instead of lake fishing," William Taylor, who has been fishing on Lake Selmac for 25 years, said.
In fact, they say having the dam only helps with the snowfall and rain this year.
"I think it kept a lot of damage from happening," Taylor said. "It kept everything from hitting the rivers all at once. That's what the dam is supposed to do and that's what it's doing."
Why do I get the feeling Leftist governments are kind of sticking together here to make it look like California’s leadership wasn’t so bad for not fixing the Oroville Dam?
The Super Train to nowhere sure outranks dams. /s
Stick a fork in Brown. The guy is done.
Huge Atmospheric River taking aim on Oroville Dam
Computer models indicate a powerful jet stream will continuously pound California over the next ten days, dumping more than 11 inches of rain over the Lake Oroville watershed.
https://www.iceagenow.info/huge-atmospheric-river-taking-aim-oroville-dam/
Taking aim? The weather has a grudge?
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Experts? Think again.
A real reporter would ask Jerry Brown if he is going to waste money on a train and leave the dams and levees unrepaired.
The weather has a grudge?
Oroville, CA:
Wednesday Night 100% Precip. / 1.32 in Showers early with a steady rain developing overnight. The rain will be heavy at times.
Low 54F. Winds SSE at 15 to 25 mph. Winds could occasionally gust over 40 mph.
Chance of rain 100%. 1 to 2 inches of rain expected.
Forecast for rain each of the next ten days. (Intellicast)
That is hardly taking aim on Oroville since surrounding areas 100 miles away are getting the same forecast. Sounds like pearl clutching liberwocky to me.
Global warming!!!!
In Oregon, seven dams have been deemed unsatisfactory - one in Josephine County, another in Curry County.O... K...
The headline speaks of "Southern Oregon" (which is more like "southwestern Oregon").
KTVL is in Medford, the largest city in this southern Oregon. Josephine County and Curry County are there as well. I suppose that this article emphasizes the local dams, and the remaining five dams are in other parts of Oregon.
Here in Central Indiana; we have to work really hard to find a depression around a creek that we can dam to get a little water in it!
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