Posted on 03/08/2017 5:38:07 AM PST by waus
New video just put out by Ca. DWR shows work to date performed over the past weekend. Great video showing damage and construction.
Thanks for posting. I was very pessimistic when I saw what was going on originally. The destructive hydraulic power of large volumes of water cannot be underestimated, and it didn’t look good.
Nice post. Very good information. Thanks
Lots of dam damage.
WOW! Amazing video of people fixing things/building things...BIG.
Thanks for posting.
Oroville 08Mar2017
The narrator Juan Browne does a very good job of presenting facts of the situation. Some of the other YouTube reports have a Chicken Little air about them - “It’s the end of the WORLD!!” and obviously they are just out for subscriber hits.
The sheer scale of the damage to the spillway is gigantic. How are they possibly going to fill in the eroded canyon between the broken end of the spillway and the river? It looks like a multiyear project to fix the spillway — can it possibly be done in 6 or 7 months? What state will it be in for the new rainy season starting Oct or Nov 2017?
Why bother? Leave it as it is...
There’s a much closer deadline to worry about. The CA DWR plans to start releasing water over that very damaged spillway when the lake level reaches 860 ft. At this link (https://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryF?ORO) you can see where the lake level is (858.7’ as of 0700 PST). It won’t be long at all before the lake reaches the DWR’s ‘must release more water’ decision point.
Put a portable cement plant up there and base-fill the erosion with controlled density fill (2-3 sack slurry), then form the new spillway on it and pour it (concrete).
Thanks for posting.
They don't have that long. The 20 foot snowpack in the Sierra-Nevada range will start melting very soon. That water has to go somewhere!
Link to the “big” thread on this, just to keep everyone on the same page(s)...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3524221/posts?page=2315
Good point. I’m so used to the past five years of drought and thinking that you would have all summer and fall with a completely dry spillway. It’s interesting that there have been no updates on plans and schedules on how to fix the spillway and how to prepare for all the coming snowmelt.
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