Posted on 03/01/2017 11:10:02 AM PST by Slicksadick
Geologists attempted for the first time Tuesday to figure out what to do about the vast, yawning canyon dug out of the earth after a crater opened up in the Oroville Dam’s concrete spillway and diverted water at high speed into the adjacent hillside.
They shut the water down this morning to view the damage. Video at Link.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
I’m sure glad the Democrat voters of Sacremento got their dam prettified.
Rather than pay for maintenance expenses the money went to pay for lawyers to protect illegal aliens and other higher California priorities. That’s the way it is.
No money for the infrastructure in California but plenty of money for the illegals.
They’d rather ride a high-speed train to nowhere.
Maybe they can fill the chasm with all the leftover cr@p that was left behind at the Pipeline Woodstock gathering...
The Irony in these two paragraphs is incredible. Greenie Moonbeam is a fanatic re Gorebull warming, and for him to take this step is getting slammed by reality!
Gov. Jerry Brown sent a letter to President Trump last week requesting a waiver that would allow the Oroville spillway repair to happen without review under the National Environmental Policy Act.
“We have suspended requirements for state environmental review due to the emergency,” Brown wrote. “I would ask that the White House take similar steps.”
They will blame Reagen for giving the speech at the opening of the dam in 1968.
That’s untrue. Money was spent on other dams. But for one known to be in questionable condition ... they let it slide.
That will buff right out.
“Rather than pay for maintenance expenses the money went to pay for lawyers to protect illegal aliens and other higher California priorities. That’s the way it is.”
That has been the California priority since Prop 187 was turned down by the Circus Court.
Minimal maintenance in our dams, roads, bridges and other infra structure, and millions if not billions for the rat lawyers and payments to the illegals to live, breed and vote in California.
The dam is not there for Sacramento. It is there for Los Angeles. It was built to store water for consumption downstream. It was built over 50 years ago and has never been as full as it is now. The spillways have never been used. The pictures look real scary but all they do is reveal the geology of the area which is mostly volcanic in origin. The rock is igneous (lava) and the water washed out the soil from the fissures. The solution is now to build the spillways more in view conformity with the geology. Other than that it has worked very well. Congratulations to the engineers who designed and built it.
Time to dust off “Bush’s fault”.
The 2 minute video at the link is astonishing. Humans are so puny.
Some duct tape and chewing gum and Jerry can go back to being President.
“We have suspended requirements for state environmental review due to the emergency,”
This may be the first time Brown has ever put the lives of humans ahead of birds, reptiles, fish, frogs, insects, etc.
An “appropriate” environmental review could find something like a new species of disease carrying mosquito is living in the area and require all downstream residents to evacuate permanently to save the mosquito rather than repairing the spillway. And it will forever be Brown’s fault that we lost a species. I hope the eco-nuts are appropriately outraged at his lack of environmentalism in prioritizing humans over the planet.
The dam near Sacremento that got improvements in the last 8 years is a different dam than the Oroville Dam.
Heads up, SF Gate - what you are describing is not Grand Canyon. Dial it back if you want to retain any credibility.
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