60 million liters / second = 2.1 million CFS.
For comparison, the Oroville, California dam was tested at high spillway flow rates after reconstruction. On April 2, 2019 releases of water over the newly reconstructed spillway were at a rate of 8,300 CFS. Releases were increased to 25,000 CFS on April 7, 2019 to test how the spillway performed in higher flows.
The flow at the Three Gorges Dam is almost 1,000 times higher than the test flow rate at Oroville! And the Three Gorges Dam flow is continuous, not a one-day max flow test.
Looks like the Erf is NOT running out of fresh water.
Oops! 100 times greater, NOT 1,000 times as I original wrote.
TGD ~ 10x peak Niagara Falls.
#14. In others words, I say to the local Chinese residents near the dam, “You’re gonna need a bigger boat”.
. I'd be interested to know how fast they're letting it out.
“ Oroville Dam Spillway Evacuation orders were delivered to residents surrounding Lake Oroville at approximately 4:30pm on Sunday. DWR has been monitoring conditions at Lake Oroville’s main and auxiliary spillways around the clock for signs of erosion that could threaten the integrity of the emergency spillway and allow large, uncontrolled flows to the Feather River. To lower the lake level and thus reduce flows and the potential for erosion at the top of the emergency spillway, DWR increased flows down the main spillway’s damaged, concrete chute to 100,000 cubic feet per second. Current releases remain within the capacity of downstream channels. Oroville Dam is a separate structure from the emergency spillway and remains sound.”