With so much debris in the river, has any briefing information revealed the timeframe they expect to clear it? And the excavation strategy?
Carving a narrow slot or narrow channel through the debris may facilitate the quickest path to lowering the river. But a narrow channel could be at risk of filling again if they have to open the spillway at higher cfs levels again.
I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
btw- At the latest briefing it was stressed that any airspace violations by private drone operators could threaten the whole schedule. (I’ll bet there are hunters that would volunteer to help them on this... high tech flying clay pigeons).
No predictions just incredible shots of the debris below the spillway and the damage we can see.
The good news is no rain until this weekend, and some very cold weather in that area to prevent snow melt.
Not sure of the snow levels above Oroville dam. Some of the snow levels in the Tahoe skiing area are very very high.
I remember sometimes a lot of snow in those areas into early June in some years.
In some years we have hot temps starting about Mother’s days in that area and not decreasing until the fall.
* quickly dredge as much as possible and dump it on land for later removal
* use sheet piling to divert the dam tailwater around the foot of the spillway