Environmental groups (many years ago) objected to the design of the emergency spillway,
(water would come over the top of the concrete wall and down the earthen slope)
but their objection was not because of fear of losing the dam,
they said it would wash silt and trees into the river
and harm the native fish populations.
They happened to be right, but for the wrong reason...
Unconfirmed:
This comment is from arfcom’s ProFryan, who was live streaming on Periscope from the dam over the weekend.
2/14/2017 12:02:24 AM EST
All right, I just got home. Where are we at?
Clearly O town is f***ed. The latest pictures show the cracks right beneath the Espill are the deathblow. Anyone with half a brain knows that it’s not Fill it’s decomposed granite or who knows what that’s just rock sitting on top of a rock.
( The word from the people working on it who are not allowed to talk publicly is there are seven monster cracks beneath the emergency spillway )