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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Link to interview on YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rl7Sm15unPQ
I listened to it. Thank you. Very good.
What did the fish say when it hit concrete ? Dam
Happy Al intines day Pax
“dam expert Scott Cahill.”
Seems like this day and time everybody thinks they are a dam expert.
Did you listen to the interview?
You’re welcome.
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?
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.
“Happy Al intines day Pax”
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al, you know how to warm a girl’s heart.
:-)
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.
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.
...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
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!)
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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.
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...
The corruption seems to be infinite.
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.
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