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To: janetjanet998

I noticed that when they were shutting it down, it started spilling onto some dirt on the left that hadn’t been eroded yet. Thus, the muddy water.

I think that for now, they might want to build up the fall area and just let it use the new eroded channel but with a limited flow of 50,000 tops. Now that all the soft stuff is out of the way, that would be a possible temporary solution until after the spring melt season.

Also, being able to run the plant will help lot in getting water out of the reservoir. I thought I had read that at peak, it can pull almost 17,000 g/s of water out, but they keep saying like 14,000 or 15000. Maybe because one generator appeared to be out for maintenance in the one photo.


1,989 posted on 02/27/2017 5:18:10 PM PST by meyer (The Constitution says what it says, and it doesn't say what it doesn't say.)
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Latest local news....

http://www.orovillemr.com/general-news/20170227/oroville-dam-operators-stop-flow-down-spillway-see-extensive-damage


1,990 posted on 02/27/2017 5:22:17 PM PST by meyer (The Constitution says what it says, and it doesn't say what it doesn't say.)
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