Complete failure at Oroville Dam

americanthinker.com ^ | 3/18/2019 | Chriss Street

[editor-surveyor]

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Obviously you do not live downstream from the Oroville spillway.

[blueunicorn6]

Send Gavin Newsom up there.

He can put his head in a hole with Jerry Brown.

[ConservativeMind]

There’s no water coming out there.

[Dave W]

I realize this is the title the American Thinker gave it, but it is misleading. It makes it sound like the dam collapsed and flood water is going downstream.

[editor-surveyor]

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Should read 100 acre-feet/sec.
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[TangoLimaSierra]

Thanks

[rlmorel]

As a resident of another state, this is the kind of thing that I would be willing to use Federal funds, for, but...I have to admit, the state being a thorn in the side of nearly everything, and forcing their leftist ideology on the rest of us with their 9th circuit court decisions and sanctuary state crap makes me less willing.

It isn’t just that they do those things, it is the overt arrogance and telling the rest of the country to pound sand while they have their hand out with a arrogant smile on their faces.

That does irritate me to no end.

[editor-surveyor]

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The dam is rock fill. It cannoy “collapse,” but it could be seriously damaged, causing as much as 1/4 of its stored capacity to spill in a short time.

[Steely Tom]

Mmm, Billie Joe.

[rlmorel]

As a conservative behind enemy lines myself, my heart goes out to those non-leftist citizens in California who see their state being dismantled in front of their eyes.

[Secret Agent Man]

Here we all thought LA would be washed away by the ocean in a quake.

No one gave a dam and now it looks like they may be washed into the ocean instead.

[Secret Agent Man]

They were gonna secede. And put up walls around their borders with the other states.

[ctdonath2]

“There’s no water coming out there.”

Yet.

Sounds like this might be an interesting link to keep handy & viewing.

[Secret Agent Man]

Nope this is a long, well-known problem that already had a severe failure once before in recent history.

[Secret Agent Man]

Anything good happens - they credit libtards with

Anything bad happens - Trumps fault, guns fault, enemy du jour’s fault

[editor-surveyor]

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It’ll never make it to the ocean!

The aluvium will make a new dam between Rio Vista and Antioch, and fill the delta with silt.

[Godzilla]

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.

SMH

1. Observations of "seepage" at the dam toe not necessarily represents seepage under the dam. Mostly likely without examining piezometer data, is that this is colluvial seepage from downstream materials.

2. The article shows weepage in the chute. You cannot make conclusive determinations from a photo taken across the river. That is the same mistake DWR made.

All in all, this 'expert' makes claims absent physical examination of the site. Dangerous to do - especially when the title threatens new "evacuations" and infers such evacuations are pending. Sad reporting and analysis

[IronJack]

R3member when America could build a dam that didn’t fail?

[Secret Agent Man]

Well lets just see how it plays out.

[infool7]

If there is any kind of a problem at Oroville then Juan Brown will have the best most comprehensive info anywhere in the interwebs on his(wife's) blancolirio channel.

Check out his series of Dam videos here in this playlist.

Anything else is probably just political rhetoric and fear mongering.

Pay it no mind.

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