Posted on 03/18/2019 10:42:12 AM PDT by rktman
The $1.1 billion spent to repair Oroville Dam is failing as water is seeping through the rebuilt spillway threatens new mass evacuations over the risk of the dam collapsing.
According to national dam expert Scott Cahill of Watershed Services of Ohio, Oroville Dam is on the same failure track as in 2017, with visible water seepage trickling from the foot of the dam and dozens of points along the dam's principal spillway. Cahill warns that warming temperatures magnified by precipitation is a growing threat to the dam.
American Thinker reported on March 1 that the Sierra snow pack was at a record 113 inches, but another 44 inches fell in the next 10 days. With temperatures spiking this week to 75 degrees in the valleys and 41 degrees in the high mountains, dam inflows are running twice the outflows, and the water levels rose from 800 to 839 feet.
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What a mess ...
I hope the resulting flood from the dam collapse doesn’t affect the high-speed rail tracks.
That still sounds high. 32.6 million gallons per second?
It’s pinned into the bedrock between 20 and 40’
They probably mean CFS or cubic feet per second.
That would be about three times more water than the Mississippi and Columbia Rivers combined. Sorry but I rather doubt that 100 acre feet per second is not correct. The actual figure is 100,000 CFS
I agree. Click bait.
Time for a couple of “wildfires!”
Only kittens and puppies of color .
You know it! :-D
Cal spends 21 bill year on services to illegals
Whatever it takes to take everything under single party state control.
God laughs when we make plans, and when we build things that "won't fail".
It usually reads cubic feet per second so it would be 100000 cubic feet per second
Thanks for posting!
Pinging to abigkahuna.
Abigkahuna,
Who was the freeper who had the technical discussion threads?
I found him on the long thread
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3524221/posts?page=4467#4467
earthresearcher333.
Also, 2019 comments begin here, with janetjanet998:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3524221/posts?page=4497#4497
I guess the warm temperatures will be blamed on Pres. Trump as will the record snows and cold.
This is truly a case of “damned (no pun intended) if you do; damned if you don’t.
[PS: If anyone sees a ram heading towards the dam, shoot it because he has “high hopes”. For musical officianados only).
#11. Like so many other things in California, the “live” “stream” of the damn is not working. Damn it.
I’ve been watching the spillway rebuild progress through the videos of Susan Wolding on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcIBfWx-RXJDhPpI0kwZwDQ
Last June I asked the Sacramento Bee what the estimated cost for this spillway rebuild was, and they gave an amount of $800 Million. They also said that the original cost to build the dam and everything, in today’s dollars was $1 Billion, with the spillway originally costing $100 Million in today’s dollars.
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