Moonbeam Brown.
Posted on 03/04/2017 8:35:51 AM PST by Navy Patriot
When state water officials scaled back their mass dumping of water from the damaged Oroville Dam this week, they knew the riverbed below would dry up enough to allow the removal of vast piles of debris from the fractured main spillway.
But they apparently did not anticipate a side effect of their decision to stop feeding the gushing Feather River — a rapid drop in river level that, according to downstream landowners, caused miles of embankment to come crashing down.
With high water no longer propping up the shores, the still-wet soil crashed under its own weight, sometimes dragging in trees, rural roads and farmland, they said.
“The damage is catastrophic,” said Brad Foster, who has waterfront property in Marysville (Yuba County), about 25 miles south of Lake Oroville.
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Moonbeam Brown.
Come on, Jerry!
Grab your rake and fix this!
Just damn! But hey! Illegal aliens get free college education! So Yay!!! end sarcasm.
How many people do they have helping people?
Idiot environMENTALists were conned into spending millions of taxpayer money to remove every dam one every creek around here — the culprits were “trout unlimited”. They figured it would be great to turn all the slow, deep creeks into rapids perfect for their special needs. The creeks have been dammed by beavers since the ice age, and by the swedes since the beaver were killed — they were never trout steams. Now, erosion is rampant — bottoms scouring too deep, bank caving in, sinkholes, wells and wetlands drying up, bridges and roads getting undermined, billions in damage, all so a few selfish asshats wearing rubber pants can fish for trout.
They turned off the water, and now they have to go rescue the fish........
I’m just waiting for the news footage of some California college girl standing in a mud puddle desperately giving mouth-to-mouth to a trout while her lesbian partner screams about how the male trout probably have water.
Photo at link.
Not an engineer here but to me the spillway looks to be destroyed.
Those folks are screwed.
Big long thread and discussion concerning the dam.....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3524221/posts?page=2213
Unnecessary.
Okay, just the best post I’ve read all week!
If I burst into the giggles at Mass tomorrow, it will be because I’m thinking of the image you made.
There is one thing that you can always count on government officials to do and that is use heavy handed tactics to screw everything up completely. In 25 years of working for a local government agency I saw it over and over and over again. Some of my co-workers were very good people but sadly the people who rise to the top in or current system are not generally the best and the brightest.
As an example, we had a fire at an asphalt production plant one time. At an earlier “prefire plan meeting” with the management at the facility I had asked the management what not to do. They said under no circumstances to spray water on the tanks and equipment that were burning that night. We were told to just turn off the gas, wait and protect our exposures. So that it what I as the first incident commander on-scene did.
When my chief showed up I had a large compliment of units standing by outside the facility ready to move in if the situation deteriorated and the fire started spreading to our exposures. The entire mob of impatient firefighters and my chief wanted to start hosing down everything. It was a huge conflict and took all of my persuasive powers to keep them from destroying the entire complex. But after a while things started to cool down, I was able to release the units that I did not need and we caused minimal damage. But the pressure to “act decisively” in a situation that required patience was almost overwhelming.
Hmmmm. I was thinking more along the lines of how much gold might have been set free. ;-)
“I was thinking more along the lines of how much gold might have been set free.”
Every cloud has a silver lining.
If we wanted destructive incompetence like this we would have had professionals from the EPA in charge.
That is elementary Hydrology-Hydraulics 101.
With all the experienced and professional experts that state an federal agencies have at their disposal, that level of incompetence is frightening.
This is not the first similar flooding event in the State.
Catastrophic?
Seriously?
Sounds like something George Bush would do.
How many truckloads are needed to fill in the area that was lost? Maybe they will build a better foundation under the spillway and use thicker concrete. The other spillway is probably a big mess too and we have not seen the damage on he lakeside yet.
Priorities to the democrats are the train, the illegals, carpool lanes and bike lanes and way down the list will be the dam but only if the state gets federal tax dollars, otherwise they will repair using thin concrete with no real foundation and leave that big gap open leading to the dam and blame the republicans when it collapses in another big storm hoping one does not happen for years after they are gone. Media to help.
Well, now the underlying bedrock has been exposed perhaps they don't even need concrete for the "new" replacement channel...:^)
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