The spillways on our Fort Patrick Henry Dam (TVA) were opened to handle all the recent extraordinary runoff.
If All 4 are opened, Eastman Chemical Co downstream might have some flooded roadways
Posted on 03/27/2019 9:01:28 AM PDT by rktman
The California Department of Water Resources is being forced by looming El Niño rainstorms to open the uncompleted Oroville Dam main spillway next week.
The Department of Water Resources issued public reassurances on February 21 that uncompleted repairs at the Oroville Dam, which forced about 188,000 emergency evacuations after a near collapse in February 2017, are not a problem, since DWR did not expect the reservoir water level to rise enough to use the spillway anytime soon.
But the timing of DWR's announcement came just a week after the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center issued an advisory that an El Niño cyclical weather pattern had formed and would last through the summer. The 2017 El Niño hammered California with super-wet rainstorms known as the "Pineapple Express."
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With all the snow I heard that when it gets warm again there could be a repeat of what happened 2 years ago.
There was an article on townhall saying that while the emergency was averted, very little about the dam has in fact changed.
I am hoping for a whole lot of reform in Sacramento.
They’re already talking about opening the new auxiliary spillway at Folsom Dam—but that one has been completed since 2017 (and just tested back in February 2019).
the uncompleted Oroville Dam main spillway next week.
Engineers, that work they did a couple of years ago, how long does it take that much cement to set up / harden?
The spillways on our Fort Patrick Henry Dam (TVA) were opened to handle all the recent extraordinary runoff.
If All 4 are opened, Eastman Chemical Co downstream might have some flooded roadways
It’ll be interesting to see if the work they did holds water.
Climate change during the winter caused a huge snowpack. Global warming during the spring now causing it to melt. Obviously the climate change deniers are at fault. Money wasted by the controlling democrats on protecting/supporting illegal aliens, socialist programs and high speed trains to nowhere instead of fixing crumbling infrastructure should be ignored.
“Opportunity Costs”
The Democrats in California have spent a tremendous amount of time, energy, money and newsprint on issues other than this.
If this thing blows and causes a lot of destruction, then the Democrats should be tried.
They haven’t been taking care of their business.
The democrats are much too busy trying to make the world safe for socialism.
Latest annual cost to taxpayers for illegal aliens in California is $23 Billion.
the uncompleted Oroville Dam main spillway next week.
Hair on fire B.S. in the first paragraph. The spillway is complete. The release was anticipated. operations are normal. Some earthwork remains, as does some tie-in work to the emergency spill way called the “buttress wall”.
They need bring dump truck loads of viagra, that will firm it up.
fyi
I have some great stills and videos of spilling at Ft. Loudon and Tellico dams that I took immediately after the last great rains ended.
The spillway webcam was turned off two days ago.
Big storm damaged the camera due to climate change.
Waiting on a repair part.
Nothing to see here.
This can’t be real, Jerry Brown told us there would NEVER be any rain in California again from Global Warming. Has anyone checked to see if this wasn’t just fallout from man made global warming and not really rain or water??
Last six days, rate of release
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/dynamicapp/QueryRES?s=oro
current lake level 845
http://oroville.lakesonline.com/Level/
expected to hit 850 by 4/10 or before and 850 is generally the trigger level for opening of the main spillway.
This could be good....
or bad....
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