San Diego research links Oroville Dam crisis to global warming
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PBS San Diego ^
| March 7, 2022 | By Thomas Fudge
The Oroville Dam in northern California is the nation’s tallest dam and it creates the state’s second-largest reservoir. In
February of 2017, an atmospheric river dumped a huge amount of snow then a huge amount of rain into the reservoir’s watershed. A 30-foot wall at the top of the dam, called the weir, nearly gave way to the volumes of water and 188,000 people had to be evacuated. “Rainfall from the atmospheric river was enhanced by about 11 to 15 percent by climate change, compared to what it would have been in pre-industrial times,” said Alexander Gershunov, a research meteorologist...
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An interview with the official behind the 'constitutional republic' of Oroville, California
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San Francisco Chronicle ^
| Dec. 9, 2021 | Eric Ting
The small Northern California city of Oroville became a national news story in the month of November when its city council voted 6-1 in favor of a resolution branding the city as a "constitutional republic" that would not enforce state or federal COVID-19 mandates.
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What the ‘Constitutional Republic’ of Oroville says about the state of American democracy
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Sacramento Bee ^
| November 28, 2021 | JOSH GOHLKE
Democracy isn’t as popular as it used to be. Take
the Oroville City Council’s overwrought recent declaration that it’s a “Constitutional Republic City,” which is steeped in creeping disregard for a once-presumptive American ideal. The measure declares that the council’s members and constituents need not follow the laws of the duly and democratically elected state and federal governments in which they’re located — and upon which they’re deeply dependent — because, well, they don’t want to.
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Opinion: What the ‘Constitutional Republic’ of Oroville says about the state of American democracy
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The Sacramento Bee ^
| November 28, 2021 | By Josh Gohlke
Democracy isn’t as popular as it used to be. Take
the Oroville City Council’s overwrought recent declaration that it’s a “Constitutional Republic City,” which is steeped in creeping disregard for a once-presumptive American ideal. “NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED by the Oroville City Council that the City of Oroville is declared to be a Constitutional Republic City,” thunders the resolution, and “that any executive orders issued by the State of California or by the United States federal government that are overreaching or clearly violate our constitutionally protected rights will not be enforced by the City of Oroville against its...
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City of Oroville declares itself a constitutional republic in stand against Calif. Gov. Newsom’s COVID-19 mandates
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One America News ^
| November 15, 2021
A Northern California city has declared itself a “constitutional republic” city in an effort to take a stand against Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom’s COVID-19 mandates.
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Oroville Reservoir at record low level, California shuts down their second-largest hydroelectric plant
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watchers.news ^
| 8/6/21 | TW
The Oroville Reservoir reached a record low level of 195.66 m (641.93 feet) above mean sea level on August 5, 2021, forcing authorities in California to shut down their second-largest hydroelectric plant. This
is now the lowest level since the nation's tallest dam was completed in 1967 and the first time the hydroelectric plant was shut down due to lack of water. The old record was 196.59 m (645 feet) set in 1977. The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) State Water Project operations managers have taken the Hyatt Powerplant at Lake Oroville offline due to falling lake levels, California...
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Feather River Floods while Oroville Drained
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https :// www . actionnewsnow . com / content / news / Oroville - residents - wondering - why - Feather - River - is - flooding - local - beach - while - Lake - Oroville - is - dry - 574963521 . html ^
What is the real reason for... People of California you need to clean house
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Megadrought Could Force California’s Lake Oroville Hydroelectric Power Plant To Shut Down
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Nation & State ^
| 6-19-2021
One of California’s most critical hydroelectric plants is at risk of closing for the first time in five decades as water levels continue to sink. A
megadrought and scorching heat, both worsened by La Nina weather effects, have depleted some of the water supply at Northern California’s Lake Oroville. The lake’s current water levels are hoovering around 700 feet above sea level, but if 640 feet is breached, then officials “will likely be forced to close the Edward Hyatt Power Plant for the first time since it opened in 1967,” California Energy Commission spokesperson Lindsay Buckley told CNN. The lake’s...
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Houseboats Evacuated From California’s Lake Oroville Amid Megadrought
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Nation & State ^
| 6-5-2021 | Tyler Durden
In Northern California’s Butte County, at least 130 houseboats were evacuated from Lake Oroville as water levels fell to dangerously low levels.The lake’s record low is 646 feet, and the state’s Department of Water Resources expects that level to be breached in August. If that happens, public boat ramps would be inaccessible
for the first due to low water levels. According to Aaron Wright, public safety chief for the Northern Buttes District of California State Parks, who spoke with AP, the only boat access point to the lake would be an old dirt road constructed in the late 1960s. Eric...
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MAJOR Oroville DAM TEST Starting Tomorrow (6 inches rain) California-VIDEO
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youtube.com ^
| 5/14/19 | LogicBeforeAuthority vlogger
Video at link. By using the word "Test" he is not referring to official stress testing, but stating that expected rains are going to exert pressure on the dam's specifications and spillway. I
didn't watch the whole video, the first few minutes gives the idea.
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Oroville Live Stream 2 April 2019
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Youtube.com ^
| 4/2/19 | Juan Browne
Juan Browne on site...at the spillway...
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El Niño forcing Oroville Dam spillway opening next week
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americanthinker.com ^
| 3/27/2019 | Chriss Street
The California Department of Water Resources is being forced by looming El Niño rainstorms to open the uncompleted Oroville Dam main spillway next week. The
Department of Water Resources issued public reassurances on February 21 that uncompleted repairs at the Oroville Dam, which forced about 188,000 emergency evacuations after a near collapse in February 2017, are not a problem, since DWR did not expect the reservoir water level to rise enough to use the spillway anytime soon. But the timing of DWR's announcement came just a week after the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center issued an advisory that an...
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Complete failure at Oroville Dam
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americanthinker.com ^
| 3/18/2019 | Chriss Street
The $1.1 billion spent to repair Oroville Dam is failing as water is seeping through the rebuilt spillway threatens new mass evacuations over the risk of the dam collapsing. According
to national dam expert Scott Cahill of Watershed Services of Ohio, Oroville Dam is on the same failure track as in 2017, with visible water seepage trickling from the foot of the dam and dozens of points along the dam's principal spillway. Cahill warns that warming temperatures magnified by precipitation is a growing threat to the dam. American Thinker reported on March 1 that the Sierra snow pack was at...
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Californians’ water bills could climb after Trump’s FEMA won’t pay $300M for Oroville Dam
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The Sacremento Bee ^
| March 8, 2019 | Dale Kasler & Ryan Sabalow
Millions of Californians could end up with higher water bills after the Trump administration on Friday announced that federal emergency officials aren’t going to reimburse the state for $306 million in repairs to Oroville Dam stemming from the 2017 spillway crisis. The
Federal Emergency Management Agency said federal taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay for problems that existed prior to a massive hole forming in the dam’s concrete spillway in February 2017, eventually prompting the two-day evacuation of 188,000 downstream residents and a $1.1 billion emergency response and repair job. Oroville Dam – the nation’s tallest – is operated by a...
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Judge to hear arguments that sexism, racism played part in Oroville dam crisis...
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WXYZ Detroit ^
| 2/15/2019 | CNN Newssource
Two years after 200,000 people evacuated as the nation's tallest dam threatened to spill over, a judge will hear arguments Friday about whether accusations of corruption, sexism and racism at the California Department of Water Resources played a part in it all.(SNIP)
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Death toll jumps to 23 as ‘challenging’ Camp Fire pushes toward Lake Oroville
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The Sacramento Bee ^
| November 10th, 2018 | By Benjy Egel
The unrelenting Camp Fire’s death toll has reached 23, making it the third deadliest wildfire in California history, officials said Saturday night. This
grim milestone came as firefighters focused resources on the fire’s southern edge amid expected high winds that could swing flames toward the city of Oroville. Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said 10 bodies were found in the town of Paradise, which was leveled in the firestorm on Friday – seven were found in homes, three were found outdoors. He said four more bodies were recovered in Concow, a few miles east of Magalia – two in their...
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Editorial: Mobile hygiene unit in Oroville a creative step (Homeless crisis in California)
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The Enterprise-Record ^
| September 26, 2018 | The Editorial Board
Working on a complex issue often takes creativity. When
it’s an issue like homelessness, every angle is worth exploring. So when the nonprofit Oroville Southside Community Improvement Association Inc. asked to partner with the city on its Haven of Hope on Wheels project, which includes a trailer outfitted with showers, toilets and laundry facilities, the Oroville City Council obliged. The council sensibly saw the project for what it is — another way to help the disenfranchised while keeping them from disrupting businesses or taking baths, doing laundry and going to the bathroom along rivers and in parks. The council voted...
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Memo Shows Seven State-Operated Dams Need a Closer Look in Wake of Oroville Dam Incident
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NBC Bay Area ^
| Feb 5, 2018 | Stephen Stock, Rachel Witte and Michael Horn
NBC Bay Area obtained a memo written by engineers at California’s Department of Water Resources (DWR) in June 2017 that raises safety questions involving seven dams owned and operated by the agency. The
memo was sent by DWR to the state’s Division of Safety of Dams and copied to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which oversees dam safety and regulation around the country. It states the seven dams are in need of immediate evaluation. The memo questions whether the seven dams, which are similar in age, design and construction to Oroville Dam, may have, “potential geologic, structural or performance issues...
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DWR could have lost control of Oroville spillway gates during crisis
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Chico Enterprise-Record ^
| 1/24/18 | Risa Johnson
The state Department of Water Resources could have lost control of the spillway radial gates for days during the Oroville Dam crisis if crucial power lines had gone down, according to department officials. DWR
leaders Cindy Messer and Joel Ledesma stated this Jan. 10 during a legislative oversight hearing on the dam at the State Capitol. This has since led some local groups to wonder why there was no backup power supply. Representatives of Friends of the River, the Sierra Club, South Yuba River Citizens League, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance and American Whitewater filed a letter with the Federal Energy...
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Oroville Dam Safety Prompts Lawsuit Against California
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NBC Bay Area ^
| 1/17 | Stephen Stock
An NBC Bay Area investigation into the safety of the Oroville Dam has now prompted the City of Oroville itself to sue the state of California. Last September, following a six-month investigation, NBC Bay Area's Investigative Unit uncovered several issues that experts say raise questions about the safety of the Oroville Dam
itself. This followed the collapse of the dam's spillway during exceptionally heavy rains last February. Events state officials admitted they were not expecting. On Wednesday, lawmakers from a prominent Bay Area legal firm announced the filing of a lawsuit against California's Department of Water Resources on behalf of...
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