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Expert: What You Need to Know about the Oroville Dam Crisis
PeakProsperity ^ | February 13, 2017 | Adam Taggart

Posted on 02/14/2017 8:10:36 AM PST by pax_et_bonum

To make sense of the fast-developing situation at California's Oroville Dam, Chris spoke today with Scott Cahill, an expert with 40 years of experience on large construction and development projects on hundreds of dams, many of them earthen embankment ones like the dam at Oroville. Scott has authored numerous white papers on dam management, he's a FEMA trainer for dam safety, and is the current owner of Watershed Services of Ohio which specializes in dam projects across the eastern US. Suffice it to say, he knows his "dam" stuff.

Scott and Chris talk about the physics behind the failing spillways at Oroville, as well as the probability of a wider-scale failure from here as days of rain return to California.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: cahill; california; dam; lakeoroville; oroville; orovilledam
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This is an excellent and informative interview with dam expert Scott Cahill.

Link to interview on YouTube:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rl7Sm15unPQ

1 posted on 02/14/2017 8:10:36 AM PST by pax_et_bonum
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To: pax_et_bonum

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rl7Sm15unPQ


2 posted on 02/14/2017 8:11:02 AM PST by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless America)
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I listened to it. Thank you. Very good.


3 posted on 02/14/2017 8:14:20 AM PST by Heartlander2
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To: pax_et_bonum

What did the fish say when it hit concrete ? Dam

Happy Al intines day Pax


4 posted on 02/14/2017 8:14:27 AM PST by al baby (Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: pax_et_bonum

“dam expert Scott Cahill.”

Seems like this day and time everybody thinks they are a dam expert.


5 posted on 02/14/2017 8:14:45 AM PST by Gamecock
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To: Gamecock

Did you listen to the interview?


6 posted on 02/14/2017 8:15:54 AM PST by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless America)
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To: Heartlander2

You’re welcome.


7 posted on 02/14/2017 8:16:49 AM PST by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless America)
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Sadly, Scott explains how this crisis was easily avoidable. The points of failure in Oroville’s infrastructure were identified many years ago, and the cost of making the needed repairs was quite small — around $6 million. But for short-sighted reasons, the repairs were not funded; and now the bill to fix the resultant damage will likely be on the order of magnitude of over $200 million. Which does not factor in the environmental carnage being caused by flooding downstream ecosystems with high-sediment water or the costs involved with relocating the 200,000 residents living nearby the dam.

Oh, and of course, these projected costs will skyrocket higher should a catastrophic failure occur; which can’t be lightly dismissed at this point.

Scott explains to Chris how this crisis is indicative of the neglect of the entire US national dam system. Oroville is one of the best-managed and maintained dams in the country. If it still suffered from too much deferred maintenance, imagine how vulnerable the country’s thousands and thousands of smaller dams are. Trillions of dollars are needed to bring our national dams up to satisfactory status. How much else is needed for the country’s roads, railsystems, waterworks, power grids, etc?


8 posted on 02/14/2017 8:16:52 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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We’re all hoping to avoid the worst possible scenario - but the government of California does not have the best track record with this type of planning. I’d evacuate myself all the way to the state line if I lived anywhere near Oroville, and I would’ve done it years ago.


9 posted on 02/14/2017 8:17:44 AM PST by detsaoT
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“Happy Al intines day Pax”

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al, you know how to warm a girl’s heart.

:-)


10 posted on 02/14/2017 8:20:04 AM PST by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless America)
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To: detsaoT

Let the sanctuary city folks go there and work like the Chinese did in building the railroads in the 1850’s time from during the CA gold rush.


11 posted on 02/14/2017 8:20:09 AM PST by ncfool (america Reborn 1/20/2017. Lets make sure we don't screw up,the opportunity to MAGA.)
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This is all you need to read from the article. Now Governor Moonbeam is asking Trump for emergency funding when this could have been avoided, and of course is Trump refuses, then it's his fault.

Sadly, Scott explains how this crisis was easily avoidable. The points of failure in Oroville's infrastructure were identified many years ago, and the cost of making the needed repairs was quite small -- around $6 million. But for short-sighted reasons, the repairs were not funded; and now the bill to fix the resultant damage will likely be on the order of magnitude of over $200 million. Which does not factor in the environmental carnage being caused by flooding downstream ecosystems with high-sediment water or the costs involved with evacuating the 200,000 residents living nearby the dam. Oh, and of course, these projected costs will skyrocket higher should a catastrophic failure occur; which can't be lightly dismissed at this point.

12 posted on 02/14/2017 8:21:33 AM PST by nikos1121 (We are about to see The Golden Age of Pericles in the new Trump Administration.)
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...6 mil. ....???..probably about what it cost to house,feed,school,,transport, a quarter of the illegals living in California’s sanc cities for half a day


13 posted on 02/14/2017 8:21:40 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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Say what you will about the Cooleys, they never sat around and collected welfare like our current crop of “economic refugees.” (Which must be cultural - the modern Chinese don’t seem to have much time for sitting around and whining, either. They’re all about working hard to live better!)


14 posted on 02/14/2017 8:23:33 AM PST by detsaoT
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I'm sorry what I said didn't register with you. Let me fix that: </sarc>
15 posted on 02/14/2017 8:23:37 AM PST by Gamecock
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To: Gamecock

:-)


16 posted on 02/14/2017 8:30:26 AM PST by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless America)
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To: nikos1121

California needs to give up the sanctuary cities concept before they siphon money from the states that are abiding by laws otherwise, we are all indirectly funding California’s desire to harbor illegals.


17 posted on 02/14/2017 8:31:40 AM PST by Anima Mundi
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To: al baby

One day I went to the dam to see if I could get some dam water but the dam keeper told me I couldn’t have any dam water so I told the dam keeper to keep his dam water...


18 posted on 02/14/2017 8:32:55 AM PST by raybbr (That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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To: smokingfrog

The corruption seems to be infinite.


19 posted on 02/14/2017 8:33:33 AM PST by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless America)
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To: nikos1121

This is one of the most obvious and illustrative examples of playing politics with people’s lives that I’ve seen.

I wonder if this dam would have been kept in good working order if Hollywood was the town just below it.


20 posted on 02/14/2017 8:37:09 AM PST by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless America)
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