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Emergency: California’s Oroville Dam Spillway Near Failure, Evacuations Ordered
Breitbart ^ | Feb 12, 2017 | Joel B. Pollak1

Posted on 02/12/2017 4:26:47 PM PST by janetjanet998

Edited on 02/12/2017 9:33:58 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

The California Department of Water Resources issued a sudden evacuation order shortly before 5 p.m. Sunday for residents near the Oroville Dam in northern California, warning that the dam’s emergency spillway would fail in the next 60 minutes.

The Oroville Dam is the highest in the nation.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: butte; california; dam; dwr; evacuation; lakeoroville; liveoroville; moonbeamcanyon; moonbeammadness; oroville; orovilledam; orovillelive; runaway; spillway; sutter; water; yuba
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To: maggief
“seepage along the fence post...per scanner”

What fence post? Where?

661 posted on 02/13/2017 3:43:06 PM PST by CedarDave (Proud member of Hillary's Deplorables class of 2016.)
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To: sissyjane

The dispatcher asked somebody to photograph the seepage.


662 posted on 02/13/2017 3:43:17 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: CedarDave

Thanks, that’s good to know.


663 posted on 02/13/2017 3:43:55 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: HKMk23; KC Burke; meyer; tomkat

Thanks for the info, HKMk23

Ping to HKMk23’s post:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3524221/posts?page=594#594


664 posted on 02/13/2017 3:44:48 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: janetjanet998
Apparently reports on scanner about seepage along the fence post.

is that some water flowing under the spillway or just a reflection or something

604 posted on 02/13/2017 12:53:50 PM PST by janetjanet998


665 posted on 02/13/2017 3:45:13 PM PST by maggief
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To: rdl6989

I think it’s the levy near Walnut Grove that is seeping
.


666 posted on 02/13/2017 3:47:37 PM PST by sissyjane
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To: sissyjane

Levee


667 posted on 02/13/2017 3:48:28 PM PST by sissyjane
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To: CedarDave

See pic in post #665.

Fence is bottom, left.


668 posted on 02/13/2017 3:48:35 PM PST by maggief
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To: CedarDave
There is a fence at the bottom of this picture which is at the north end of the emergency spillway. The picture is from this morning.


669 posted on 02/13/2017 3:48:44 PM PST by CedarDave (Proud member of Hillary's Deplorables class of 2016.)
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To: sissyjane
I think it’s the levy near Walnut Grove that is seeping

WHEW!

670 posted on 02/13/2017 3:50:50 PM PST by CedarDave (Proud member of Hillary's Deplorables class of 2016.)
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To: sissyjane

See post #643.


671 posted on 02/13/2017 3:52:41 PM PST by maggief
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To: maggief

Oh @#$%.


672 posted on 02/13/2017 3:55:30 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: RayChuang88; maggief

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3524221/posts?page=630#630

And check Maggie’s posts; tons of info...

And this...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3524221/posts?page=654#654


673 posted on 02/13/2017 3:56:30 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: CedarDave
Forgot to mention that logs were jammed up against the fence when water was spilling over.


674 posted on 02/13/2017 4:02:07 PM PST by maggief
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To: WildHighlander57

Watching a local report on KCRA.TV. They just showed one of the helicopters dropping a bag of rocks in a hole on the OTHER side of the spillway. At the far edge of the parking lot.


675 posted on 02/13/2017 4:02:14 PM PST by sissyjane
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To: sissyjane

they had bags ready to go all day..why would they start just before dark?


676 posted on 02/13/2017 4:05:38 PM PST by janetjanet998
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To: janetjanet998

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The questions definitely out number the answers in this fiasco!
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677 posted on 02/13/2017 4:07:55 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: janetjanet998

They just got the approval.


678 posted on 02/13/2017 4:12:30 PM PST by sissyjane
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To: sissyjane; HKMk23; maggief

Where the weir meets the parking lot?

That would be this hole (h/t HKMk23 & maggief for pics)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3524221/posts?page=630#630

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3524221/posts?page=665#665


679 posted on 02/13/2017 4:14:24 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: WildHighlander57

It was at the OTHER end of the parking lot. It was a deep hole.


680 posted on 02/13/2017 4:16:11 PM PST by sissyjane
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