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 Oroville Dam is the highest in the nation.
Regardless, it's gotta be makin' one helluva mess downstream.
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From # 781:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdOGPBnfoKE
Teton Dam Disaster
The Teton Dam was an earthen dam in Idaho, United States, built by the Bureau of Reclamation, one of eight federal agencies authorized to construct dams. Located on the Teton River in the eastern part of the state, between Fremont and Madison counties, it suffered a catastrophic failure on June 5, 1976, as it was filling for the first time. The incident is now used as a case study for ECON1102 assignment.
The collapse of the dam resulted in the deaths of 11 people and 13,000 head of cattle. The dam cost about $100 million to build, and the federal government paid over $300 million in claims related to its failure. Total damage estimates have ranged up to $2 billion. - The dam has not been rebuilt.
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Something I see when I look at that data in detail is a spike this morning for a short while in Inflow numbers. Perhaps the smaller lakes above Oroville (which were full) are releasing water to be ready for the storm and any protection they can provide to level out the new inflow to the whole system.
They’re down to 887.94 feet now, with a steady 100,000 cf/s outflow, and variable inflow from above. I would presume that the upstream dams and such need to try to make room for more water with the upcoming steady rain event too.
I wonder if it’s feasible to get the generation back on line. No hard information as to the condition of the incoming transmission lines. I had heard that they were cut (or cut off, which would electrically mean de-energized) and I understand that there are issues inside the plant regarding either debris or high water or something that is preventing things from operating.
But running a generator will flow water through the plant and produce useful electricity instead of just pouring it over the damaged spillway. Plus it could add to the 100,000 cf/s that is flowing now to speed up the emptying process.
Good video, even though he’s reached the limit of his camera. :)
It looks like they’re filling and hardening the erosion at the west end of the “emergency” spillway near where it ends by the parking lot. I think they ought to be shoring things up on the parking lot also, to direct the water over the spillway as much as possible. Maybe a job for sandbags, as the surface water, if it gets that high again, would not have a lot of pressure so just sandbagging and re-directing would be sufficient.
I believe this may have been mentioned earlier, but here’s another mention and explanation of the “river valve” that was damaged in 2009...
The first video is taken by a woman above the dam and seems to be from this morning.
Looks like their first order of biz was to complete a road across the washouts in front of the aux spillway. Looks like they did that overnight. Now they’ll be able to get the pumper truck in and finish armoring the spillway outflow with rip-rap and concrete slurry.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=62&v=EqEU2X6yBPk
Commenters at another site say that between :38 and :48 the spots in the lake just inside emergency spillway are bubbles.
I can’t tell.
Monday 2:07 PST
Sheriff says people would not be going back home on monday.
Abigkahuna,
Is the sheriff correct, has situation changed since yesterday?
I saw that on another site also. They looked like bubbles, but someone pointed out that it was probably the sun reflecting off of the water. Note that the video is from yesterday. Progress has been made to shore up the “emergency” spillway/weir.
This is a fascinating situation of man versus nature. While man cannot control nature (much to the dismay of the gloBULL Warmists), he can adapt to, and work with it.
“Commenters at another site say that between :38 and :48 the spots in the lake just inside emergency spillway are bubbles.
I can’t tell.”
I was about to post the same link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqEU2X6yBPk
Thank you, and I’m very relieved to know that it isn’t bubbles.
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