Good thing it doesn't rain in the summer in California.
Meanwhile, where are the money allocated for water storage projects going?
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."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Oroville is less than 80% full right now. We do have a huge snowpack, almost 160% of normal, and an El Nino could mean a wetter and warmer than usual spring. Or it might not. El Nino years are unpredictable. Sometimes El Nino’s are dry and La Nina are wet. Climate Guessers still don’t fully understand these cycles and suck at predicting their impact. A few years back, we had El Nino conditions, so they dumped reservoirs to make room, only to have a very dry year, leaving us in the middle of a drought, with almost empty reservoirs.
Looking at recent pictures of the spillway, the concrete work is complete and they are back-filling around the spillway. There was a live-cam, but it’s been down for a few days. Considering the water level, and no major storms forecast, it is unlikely the spillway will be needed over the next few weeks, but they have to be prepared.
“The spillway webcam was turned off two days ago....Nothing to see here.”
LOL!!!!!!!!
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Try this camera. It pans the upper spillway.
http://www.parks.ca.gov/live/lakeorovillesra_spillwaytop
Good thing it doesn't rain in the summer in California.
Meanwhile, where are the money allocated for water storage projects going?
Thanks for the update. Seem to remember from last weeks discussion that things were moving as expected.
I used to think that, too.
I don’t anymore.
Some Democrats are true socialists/communists, but it’s just a few of them.
Some Democrats are true environmentalists, but it’s just a few of them.
The vast majority of Democrats are people who want easy money and lots of it.
They’ll encourage you to think they are socialists while they are busy picking your pocket.
I think we need to see them as they really are.
They’re just thieves.
To call them socialists is to provide them with a somewhat honorable motive for their thievery.
They aren’t the least bit honorable.
The Democrat Party is a union of thieves and needs to be treated as such.
All socialists are thieves. Socialism is thievery.
Well good. So we won’t have to use the emergency spillway, aka the adjacent hillside. I see this am Squaw Valley still leads the way among 14 resorts, with 634 inches of snow so far this year. I think I’ll go hose of my driveway!
Yes, because Trump caused (er, did not stop) global from happening last year (and the ten years before that!), therefore, the previous years’ drought was obviously his fault.
And because Trump caused (er, did not stop) global warming this year, therefore, this year’s extra snow and extra rain (which DID end the previous eight years of drought in California!) are ALSO his fault!
Yup. This makes two pure-BS Oroville articles in a row from Chriss Street.
The new spillway has been finished and ready to use since November 2018. The backfill and landscaping operations are not relevant for spillway operations.
Sadly, American Thinker is getting closer and closer to do-not-click territory for me.
Oh, the blame game huh? Nyuk nyuk nyuk!
Concrete reaches a majority of its final strength within 2 days of the initial pour. (Nearly all of its strength within two weeks of the initial pour. )
It does continue to react for many years (producing heat that must be removed from the concrete in massive structures like the Hoover Dam), but thin items like this spillway cool easily by natural loss to the air.
Yep.
The Democrats try to pass off socialism as philanthropy.
There’s a huge difference.
Yup. Socialist/communist Russia, China, Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, Cambodia, etc, all stole land from the landowners and either collectivized or ‘redistributed’ it to the peasants. Likewise, seized the wealth from the wealthy, nationalized or took over corporations, private industry and property. Obviously this did not work out well for the prior owners many of whom were enslaved or slaughtered. Didn’t work out well for the peasants either as great masses of them were also enslaved, slaughtered, worked to death, used as cannon fodder, or left to starve to death.
I spelled your screen name wrong on my ping list.
It should do fine. All the necessary work on the main spillway(the Big one that failed) has been officially finished since November 18th. The emergency spillway has a little more work but it wouldn’t impede it’s usage.
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