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Thanks Daisy

This dam is doomed.

For any dam once you get water over the top or you have an undercut main spillway, it’s in a precarious place.

But this dam has both, and the emergency spillway is a joke of erosion. As is this engineering effort.

They cannot fix this monster soon enough. The dam hasn’t been touched in nearly 50 years. They didn’t even keep the emergency spillway clear and the main spillway has been damaged since 2013.

Their only hope is the rain is lighter and colder than now forecast. And that’s just to get through the next 10 days. There will be so many more close calls between now and June.

But one thing is certain, a sustained flow over the emergency spillway, or further damage to the main spillway will result in disaster. The water could cut the entire mountain in half.