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 ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3524221/posts?q=1&;page=2051
Before they turned off the spigot.
Revealed damage on the main spillway after they turned off the spigot.
Bottom of the main spillway where a huge piece of concrete was jarred loose and made its way down to the teeth of the dispersion blocks at the bottom of the main spillway. The worker-ants in the foreground give you a perspective of how massive this whole this is.
The climate has changed.
I have no perspective ... is the top picture located at the bottom of the bottom picture ?
Beautiful country there.
Cali will first spend billions on sanctuary free healthcare for everyone before they get around to fixing infrastructure.
The cityfolk and illegals demand it.
yes, and what stands out the most, is a major lack of rebar. I got more rebar in my garage slab than what they got there. There is no way those massive chunks would break off like that with proper rebar to hold it together.
Some have said the FR thread - link below - has of the best photos and technical analysis to be found anywhere.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3524221/posts
Name it “Democrat Canyon,” and make it a wilderness area.
Brown is not putting humans before the environment, it’s his ass in the sling that is in jeopardy here. He has never given a damn about citizens.
24 BILLION a year for illegal immigrants, AND borrowed 2 billion for water infrastructure that he did not bother to spend (on water) and his chickens have come home to roost.
Oroville, the only known damaged dam, was not repaired, because a “disaster” is payed for by the Feds. If it wiped out a town of citizens, all the more money in Federal disaster relief.
Yes, Democrat’s are that evil...
I am no structural engineer, but that sure looks like sheets of concrete were simply laid down over rocks. Where is the support for the weight of all that water?
“My old man is a television repairman, he’s got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it.”
Jeff Spicoli
It appears that the liberal stupidity was saved by bedrock.
And there is absolutely no way for the RATS to cover this up.
I sometimes wonder if vote fraud is so perfected in CA that it’s really a red state. Once the RATS gain control of a precinct the vote goes anyway they want... how else could the state go from prop 187 passage to electric blue in only 20 years?
Maybe that’s what Holder’s really doing out there.. protecting the vote fraud rackets.
You may find an answer or somebody who knows the answer or somebody who can get the answer on this link.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3524221/posts
Go to the end of the link and work backwards a bit to find the real technical gurus on the thread.
Only now it isn’t going to be paid by the Feds.
Until CaliPorno is in compliance on immigration enforcement.
“major lack of rebar.”
That appears to be the case. I don’t see any.
The spillways have never been used. They could possibly have done a better job of building them but 50 years have passed since then and they have never been tested until just now. The geology of the area is quite durable.
I go to Table Mountain every spring, which overlooks the city of Oroville. That is immediately to the north and west of the dam. That rock is as unforgiving as any rock if you happen to fall down on it. The erosion near the spillways is quite similar to the erosion around the edges of Table Mountain.
It is some hard a** rock. You can almost see where it flowed when it was molten. It is also somewhat monolithic. There is a huge expanse of flat mountaintop they is unbroken for miles, all lava rock.
I actually was in the evacuation area south of Oroville as everyone was leaving. I was not the least bit afraid. Like I said, congratulations to the engineers who designed and built it. They were the same generation that put men on the moon. If we had to build it now it would never happen because safe spaces.
I seem to recall a former Gubinator also supporting waiving environmental rules when it came to building a high speed choochoo..
birds of a feather or what? Fleecing the rest of us and then extending their hands , palms wide open, pleading for more dough to blow.. all for good causes , of course.
No idea of the truth, may be worth investigating, but one comment I heard (from more than one source) was that the politics of the area had an affect on what “shovel ready infrastructure” money was allocated where in 2009. The Oroville area is pretty conservative:
[url=http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/02/19/oroville-dam-president-trump-governor-jerry-brown-feud-funding-conservative/98129510/] USA Today article[/url]
and the stories on the funding back up the “selective” distribution:
[url=http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/oroville-dam-obama-stimulus/2017/02/16/id/774072/]Newsmax article[/url]
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