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/
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
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
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..
Another FR Oroville spillway thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3523218/posts
Infrastructure. Trump wants to spend on infrastructure.
Others are in danger of breakage as well. Near Napa is the spillway near Conn Dam which is being heavily tested.
Upside is.. the drought’s over.
Wiki: Oroville Dam is an earthfill embankment dam on the Feather River east of the city of Oroville, California in the United States, at 770 feet (230 m) high.
earthfill - that explains it.
In a few of the pictures overlooking the lake when you could see the hole in the spillway, the waterline across the lake is way down... How long have they been thinking about doing something about this?
That sucker pops, the old manure ponds of Stinkymento gonna get a good flushing,, long overdue.. I hope the smelt and salmon can handle it..
For those that are interested...here is the updated live from our local paper.
http://www.orovillemr.com/general-news/20170209/live-updates-latest-on-oroville-spillway-damage-and-water-releases
One may also go to twitter #Orovillespillway
We are sitting pretty right about now.
All dams leak.
Sincerely
William Mulholland
Inspected the dam just 12 hours before its collapse
http://archive.signalscv.com/archives/10939
From what I can tell, the spillway is separated from the main dam by a section of natural terrain. That should provide a buffer against the water rushing out of the spillway, so long as there is a good rock foundation underneath. That is probably why they put the spillway where they did.