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Oroville Dam: What made the spillway collapse? (California)
San Jose Mercury News and Propaganda ^
| February 17, 2017
| Paul Rogers, Coverup Department
Posted on 02/18/2017 4:49:41 PM PST by Navy Patriot
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The Smirkury Snooze completely misses the fact that the cavitation problem was known in the early sixties and proved engineering fixes were successfully completed and proved in several similar dams before 1984.
Why then was Moonbeam Brown's DemoRat run California unwilling to spend one dime in 35 years, to prevent the absolute disaster of the near collapse of the Oroville Dam?
To: Navy Patriot
It collapses simply because the state needed to feed the poor staving illegals its not hard to figure
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posted on
02/18/2017 4:52:40 PM PST
by
al baby
(Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
To: Navy Patriot
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posted on
02/18/2017 4:53:01 PM PST
by
rfp1234
(DinosorosExtinction)
To: Navy Patriot
Dirt moves around over the years as the ground is run through repeated water saturated and dehydrated cycles occur.
Plus gravity rulz. It's not just a good idea, It's The LAW!
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posted on
02/18/2017 4:54:07 PM PST
by
Paladin2
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To: rfp1234
Lawrence Welks fault. Or maybe Don Ho's -- "Tiny bubbles, etc."
To: Navy Patriot
No way that media source will ever tell the truth about it. Jerry Brown and the rest of the gov workers steal money from road work, water rate payers and for all infrastructures.
The left wants its 250k pensions and all infrastructures destroyed. Less cars on the road and the goal only 2 class of people...poor and them.
Did you know Brown gets money from a oil company that was taken over by a coup in another country?
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posted on
02/18/2017 4:55:23 PM PST
by
ColdOne
(( miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
To: Navy Patriot
Easy. Politicians. It is way more sexy for a progressive politician to name a new foot bridge after themselves than to repair existing infrastructure. And besides. California was never going to get precipitation due to global warming.
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posted on
02/18/2017 4:55:32 PM PST
by
Organic Panic
(Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family From Public Housing - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
To: Navy Patriot
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posted on
02/18/2017 4:56:28 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Navy Patriot
I forgot;;;their precious life time illegal voters...
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posted on
02/18/2017 4:56:45 PM PST
by
ColdOne
(( miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
To: Paladin2
Know truth when you see it. Thanks.
Plus gravity rulz. It’s not just a good idea, It’s The LAW!
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posted on
02/18/2017 4:57:37 PM PST
by
ptsal
To: Navy Patriot
Incompetence. A state that was and is more focused on PC silliness than on doing its job.
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posted on
02/18/2017 4:58:12 PM PST
by
RKBA Democrat
(It's no longer Right versus left, but Americanism versus globalist scum.)
To: Navy Patriot
"But despite the lessons from Glen Canyon, the Oroville Dam spillway apparently did not have aerators. "
There are some sort of water sprays on the sides of the spillway that must have been installed for this effect. Apparently not effective.
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posted on
02/18/2017 4:58:15 PM PST
by
Paladin2
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To: rfp1234
That’s some Hawaiian guy’s schtick.
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02/18/2017 4:59:38 PM PST
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Paladin2
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To: Navy Patriot
Um, my guess: Entropy and 45 years of zero maintenance.
To: BenLurkin
I hated Science as our savior once I found out about Entropy.
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posted on
02/18/2017 5:02:19 PM PST
by
Paladin2
(No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
To: Navy Patriot
I doubt that cavitation had anything to do with this washout collapse. problems ? grossly neglecting maintenance repairs and lax inspections more likely.
To: Navy Patriot
Because the dems are so narrow-minded in their thinking that spending an actual half a million in repairs to save a potential 200 million in repairs is a concept they are unable to process.
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posted on
02/18/2017 5:03:39 PM PST
by
blueplum
("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
To: Navy Patriot
It was a near collapse last week. This week all bets are off. I rode around the sacto river levees today and there are many places where they are leaking. The Yolo bypass is a huge lake with rapids.
Wish I had bought that boat I was considering last fall!
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posted on
02/18/2017 5:07:49 PM PST
by
HerrBlucher
(For the sake of His sorrowful passion have mercy on us and on the whole world.)
To: Recompennation
Caulk joint probably not maintained and any water-stop was unprotected. We know for certain that scrub tree growth had taken over the side of the emergency spillway run-off area.
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posted on
02/18/2017 5:08:51 PM PST
by
KC Burke
(If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
To: Recompennation; LibWhacker
grossly neglecting maintenance repairs and lax inspections more likely.Yes, but hey still had cavitation and should have re-engineered the fix for it, which would have made the spillway function properly and remain undamaged.
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posted on
02/18/2017 5:09:18 PM PST
by
Navy Patriot
(America returns to the Rule of Law)
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