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150,000 Cubic Yards of Debris Stand in the Way of Oroville Dam's Hydroelectric Plant Restart
Los Angeles Times ^
| FEB. 17, 2017
| Joseph Serna and Louis Sahagun
Posted on 02/17/2017 5:09:30 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
Sounds like a great plan - “It’s starting to rain again, so let’s reduce the outflow by 25% and see what happens”.
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posted on
02/17/2017 5:12:25 PM PST
by
PAR35
To: nickcarraway
The dam will breach within the next few days.
To: TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed
“The dam will breach within the next few days.”
The emergency spillway dam, or the real dam?!
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posted on
02/17/2017 5:27:57 PM PST
by
ForYourChildren
(Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
To: ForYourChildren
Real dam.
As in millions of cf/s.
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posted on
02/17/2017 5:40:41 PM PST
by
ctdonath2
(Understand the Left: "The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution.")
To: ctdonath2
“Real dam.”
Better hope not.
There goes Sacramento! Really!
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posted on
02/17/2017 5:48:36 PM PST
by
ForYourChildren
(Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
To: TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed
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posted on
02/17/2017 5:48:48 PM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed
What information are you using to come to that conclusion? Are you an engineer?
It’s certainly possible the spillway has a failure, but the entire dam?
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posted on
02/17/2017 5:49:35 PM PST
by
SE Mom
(Screaming Eagle mom)
To: SE Mom
I predict the flood will grease the plates and all of californicate will fall in the ocean.
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posted on
02/17/2017 5:57:41 PM PST
by
oldasrocks
(rump)
To: PAR35
“Engineers had been pumping water out of the lake at 100,000 cfs”
Can pumps, even a bunch of them, transfer that much water per second?
To: oldasrocks
:) . The dam is sitting on one of those plates. Anything is possible from here on in....
To: cymbeline
You know engineers, they even take credit for gravity.
To: cymbeline
A single 12” pump will move about 6000 gallons per minute.
They are releasing 7,500,000 gallons per minute
1250 pumps?
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posted on
02/17/2017 6:41:04 PM PST
by
digger48
To: nickcarraway
A judicious use of explosives could solve this.
Guy stuff. We used to be able to do things.
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posted on
02/17/2017 6:44:19 PM PST
by
Justa
To: digger48
Never mind. I know my math is off. Long day.
100,000 cfs = 750,000 gallons per second X 60 = 45,000,000 gallons per minute.
7500 12 IN pumps.
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posted on
02/17/2017 6:47:43 PM PST
by
digger48
To: ForYourChildren
There goes Sacramento! Really! That may be the only thing that could save California...
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posted on
02/17/2017 6:49:27 PM PST
by
null and void
(Trump's critics have evolved from expecting Trump to be Hitler to preferring it.)
To: ForYourChildren
There goes Sacramento! Really! That may be the only thing that could save California...
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posted on
02/17/2017 6:49:35 PM PST
by
null and void
(Trump's critics have evolved from expecting Trump to be Hitler to preferring it.)
To: cymbeline
Pumps, sheesh. Dumb journalists.
To: ForYourChildren
There goes Sacramento! Really! Any chance of including the legislative majority and their moon(beam) god in that?
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posted on
02/17/2017 7:16:16 PM PST
by
JohnBovenmyer
(Waiting for the tweets to hatch!)
To: cymbeline
Strictly speaking, they just opened the floodgates and let gravity do the pumping.
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posted on
02/17/2017 7:24:33 PM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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