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'This is Not Good': Oroville Dam Managers Made Missteps in Handling Crisis
NBC Bay Area ^ | Apr 19, 2017

Posted on 04/19/2017 3:09:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: semaj

The emergency spillway was probably originally meant for the extreme storm event, a 50-100 year storm event. It wasn’t meant for three decades of neglect leading to failure of of the primary spillway features.


21 posted on 04/19/2017 6:21:26 PM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: catnipman

#14 it was gophers


22 posted on 04/19/2017 11:38:02 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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