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Oroville Dam Reviews
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Posted on 02/19/2017 5:41:37 PM PST by exDemMom

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To: polymuser
It's hard to tell what's going to happen because there is good rock (there are technical terms that I forgot) and bad rock. I don't have any idea if they ever identified areas of each of those properties in order to make any prediction. Time will tell.

Judging from your photo though, it sure looks like BAD rock upstream! That water must be rotating in there like a coal machine.

41 posted on 02/20/2017 9:00:14 AM PST by Karl Spooner
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There’s another shot of it here with no water, down the page in a slideshow...
http://www.abc10.com/mb/news/local/live-update-damaged-oroville-dam-spillway/407882066


42 posted on 02/20/2017 9:04:07 AM PST by polymuser (There's a yuuuge basket of deportables.)
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Couldn’t gain too much more from those photos....Should be something new coming up for today before long.


43 posted on 02/20/2017 9:23:21 AM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: OKSooner

That is not considered a major issue, because that area is solid rock. There will be some erosion, but what they were worried about is more of the spillway breaking off, if that breakage makes it to the top, it could take out the spillway intake, allowing way too much water to come through.

Just like erosion on the emergency spillway isn’t considered a major problem, EXCEPT that the erosion is undercutting the 30-foot concrete wall, and if that wall falls, way too much water will escape too quickly. However, even then they don’t think the entire dam would fail, because it would only erode down to the bedrock.


44 posted on 02/20/2017 10:13:42 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: polymuser; randita

First video of the day showed up on YT. Best quote in it is “it’s doing exactly what it’s supposed to do”. I kid you not.

https://youtu.be/jRhArmAwLP0


45 posted on 02/20/2017 11:21:43 AM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: exDemMom
The view from space:


46 posted on 02/24/2017 4:09:59 PM PST by Cementjungle
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That is very nice imagery, thank you!


47 posted on 02/24/2017 4:32:14 PM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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