Posted on 02/09/2017 9:30:51 PM PST by blueplum
Update, 7:15 p.m. Thursday: The situation surrounding the damaged spillway at Oroville Dam has escalated into a crisis, with state water managers hoping they can dump enough water down the badly compromised structure to prevent the state’s second-largest reservoir from pouring over an emergency release point that has never been used before. Flow rates down the collapsing spillway were increased late Thursday morning to 35,000 cubic feet per second. The result was a spectacle of churning mud and water and the further damage to the concrete structure. [snip] Officials at the media briefing repeated further reassurances that the integrity of Oroville Dam, one of the largest in the United States, has not been affected by the spillway collapse. Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said that while local emergency agencies are preparing for evacuations downstream of the dam, he didn’t believe the spillway situation posed an imminent threat.
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otoh, it might be a real good time to work on getting livestock and children in the path of an 905ft tall overflowing dam up to higher ground ?
Run for your lives!
Management from a senile Moonbeam governor translates to this. 30 years with no new water projects, yet the Socialist, Sanctuary state of Mexifornia will spend 70 billion as a downpayment union work project to build a choo choo train from nowhere to nowhere which takes twice as long as a flight to the same place. This is the cost of Leftist DemocRAT “government.” Get lost Moonbeam, that would be the best thing for the broken Mexifornia.
California passed a $7.1 billion water bond in 2014 to improve the state’s water structure and storage issues. In addition, $425 million unused from prior water bonds are reallocated to this effort. My wife heard a report last month that $2.5 billion has already been spent, and apparently it has all been spent on the *PLANNING* phase. Such a f*cked up state we live in.
Yep, given that there’s more rain on the way...
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/02/07/california-may-be-long-overdue-for-a-mega-flood/
Remember California is broke.
What is the maintenance history.
What is the ‘path’? Sacramento is 69 miles south, according to a map search. I do not know the topography of the area.
Another video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL6bx4B3ERc
Oroville to Marysville/Yuba City to Sacramento - reverse: I-5 north from Sac past airport to 70/99 to Marysville/Yuba City to Oroville
https://www.mapquest.com/places/thermalito-afterbay-oroville-ca-282021146
I wonder how much water you could get through a siphon made of about 20 of those 6” bolt together irrigation pipes laid side by side?
From Wikipedia
” At 770 feet (230 m) high, it is the tallest dam in the U.S”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oroville_Dam
The topography is flat.A breach in this dam would send a 200 foot high wall of water down US 99 wiping out towns all the way down to the junction of the Sacramento River which is currently in near flood. Most of Central California would be under water. There would be flooding in the bay area.
I was working downstream of a dam last summer. The sirens went off for an extra-long time it seemed. I caught up to my client who worked for an agency related to the dam and asked him.
“Yeah - it seemed long, who knows. Not much we could do anyway.”
“Well - we’re what - 100 feet above the river bottom. We’d be okay, right?”
He laughed. “Well, seeing as we’re only about a mile from the dam, and where I live - 12 miles down the valley where we would see up to 400 feet of water - um - no. So like I said - not much we could do about it. And if that dam failed it would almost have to be due to a large earthquake - which would cause the two dams above it to also fail. I’m not sure if they’ve done the models on that.”
Hopefully they can lower the water in this dam quickly and safely to avoid what could be a huge loss of life and property damage. And one can only imagine the outcry by the Greenies to call for ALL dams to be torn down.
I was working downstream of a dam last summer. The sirens went off for an extra-long time it seemed. I caught up to my client who worked for an agency related to the dam and asked him.
“Yeah - it seemed long, who knows. Not much we could do anyway.”
“Well - we’re what - 100 feet above the river bottom. We’d be okay, right?”
He laughed. “Well, seeing as we’re only about a mile from the dam, and where I live - 12 miles down the valley where we would see up to 400 feet of water - um - no. So like I said - not much we could do about it. And if that dam failed it would almost have to be due to a large earthquake - which would cause the two dams above it to also fail. I’m not sure if they’ve done the models on that.”
Hopefully they can lower the water in this dam quickly and safely to avoid what could be a huge loss of life and property damage. And one can only imagine the outcry by the Greenies to call for ALL dams to be torn down.
Thanks... Said a prayer for those that might be affected.. because it does not look good.. for that dam.
Morbid thoughts indeed, i used to live on Bethel Island.
Where is an Ark when you need one?
If the dam were to fail it would utterly devastate northern California.
This is all happening down the road from us. But luckily we are opposite the dam. We know folks that live down there along the river, very nice area. Don’t think there is any danger of the town flooding, at least at this time, although it has happened that downtown flooded. 20 years ago we faced a similar situation when the dam crested at a foot below the top. The rains were the same—huge storms. We are soggy, very soggy, but since our property is a gentle slope we are fine. Walking down to the barn today to work was a chore. Rained about two inches this afternoon. Will be happy when the skies clear Saturday and the ground begins to dry out a bit.
But that is the way it is here. Rain for say three or four days then dry for a bit, then rinse and repeat.
It’s gorgeous here and the population is not what you would find down in the Bay Area. Many folks used to live down there in that rat hole before discovering this place. We are a solid Red county, say for the students at Chico State. What’cha going to do? Kids gotta be kids...
If we are under water, we will let you know...blub, blub,blub..
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