BREAKING: Lake Oroville flowing over emergency spillway for first time in dam’s history

Sacramento Bee ^ | 02-11-2017 | Dale Kasler

[Kevin in California]

State water officials said water has begun flowing over the emergency spillway at Oroville Dam. Doug Carlson, a spokesman for the state Department of Water Resources, said water started topping over the auxiliary spillway shortly before 8 a.m. at a rate of between 5,000 and 10,000 cubic feet per second.

[moovova]

“Are you joking?”

Yes I was. I was poking fun at the surplus of water in California right now...and the legislators ability to mishandle and be blind to the Godsend after such an extended drought.

But the scary part? I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t institute things of that nature.

Note...although I’d considered moving to CA once...I’m glad I don’t live there now. Love to visit though.

[fatima]

Great shot.

[The Westerner]

Mariner, if the river in Sacramento is nearing flood levels, and more rain, followed by snow pack melting in spring (what month is spring in No. Cal?) it sounds like flooding is inevitable.

[zot]

Thanks for the ping. According to Google maps, our friend Chris lives on relatively high ground.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Gaffer: You are talking about CALIFORNIA state officials. Did you think they actually knew what they were talking about?

Remember the King Gold Mine disaster last year? A local, professional geologist warned the EPA, the State of New Mexico and the company that was doing the internal mine dam pressure test that if they went into the dam from the side, it would explode the walls and send all its contents into the nearby rivers.

Well, they didn’t listen. He was right. The damn wall exploded and polluted the King? River and tributaries. Now the EPA and New Mexico are being sued by many people, including the local Navaho tribes, because of the pollution and the disruption of their lives, for about $10 Million or more.

Many government officials think they know more than the peasants so they ignore them until a disaster happened. All they say as an apologia is “Oops” and they keep their jobs (except for some in the Flint, Mich. water supply fiasco).

California is a lunatic asylum all to itself, with beautiful scenery and commies, crazies, cronies, and crooks running the governments there, running wild in the streets, and looting the taxpayers’ money with very little legal action being taken against them.

Lesson Learned: When you have abnormally high rainfalls in a concentrated period of time, and you live below a dam, RUN LIKE HELL and let the govt officials stay in the way of what comes over the top.

Where I come from, this is called “common sense” and “a reduction by Nature of the workforce”.

[KC Burke]

Visited a relative in the Bay area a few weeks ago. He talked about the outrage that is his water bill. $1,000 a month. Subdivision house, moderate landscape irrigation. Insane.

The local and state governments are getting a good portion of that in fees that are in no way returned to the consumer. There is no way they are going to let that boondoggle stop.

The Californian is going to have its blood drained until he is dead.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

#30 re the picture of Lake Don Pedro being full of dead wood/logs, etc.

Sort of Nature’s way of clearcutting out the deadwood, which is worth a fortune to the paper and construction industry (i.e. jobs), it is harvested from the lake properly.

Also small debris can be used in fireplaces and BBQs but if I remember correctly, it was one or all of the following states that have outlawed or are trying to outlaw the use of woodstoves, fireplaces, etc. - California, Oregon, Washington State, Massachusetts and New York.

Corrections and additions welcomed.

[Thank You Rush]

Boy! That’s a relief... Lived there for 50+ years, my husband was a native, I was a transplant from NY State, now we’re retired and in GA where it made sense when we moved here 11 years ago but for how long? We’re probably safe for as long as we have left - if I don’t follow my mother’s side of the family and live until I’m 107....no thank you!!!!

Have been following lots of the coverage about the Oroville Dam/spillway - fascinating videos even as late as this afternoon. It was coming over the emergency spillway in the last video I saw and also pictures of the areas that were cleared of trees etc., but boy - it didn’t look cleared where the water was pouring down...muddy, muddy meeting up with the clear water from the other spillway.

I find it interesting....

[The Westerner]

Yes, the overflow of this dam, in this manner, is unprecedented. For 50 wet and dry years, this has not been experienced. Had the sensible fathers of the California aqueduct and reservoir system been in control, new dams would have been built to store water in wet years and prevent the disaster which I fear is coming.

The Communists never gave up the battle to destroy America’s brilliant achievements under Capitalism. The new left is in control for now. Only an end to vote fraud will allow States like Calif, Illinois, Minnesota and New York to get rid of these powerlusters!

[Karl Spooner]

https://youtu.be/oQxVmKnBgvc

[Cen-Tejas]

.......the Russians did it!

[Dustoff45]

Wow - If seepage is now occurring to the left of the emergency spill lip, then serious erosion could quickly take place. They need to open up the primary now and get ahead of that.

[Karl Spooner]

I can't imagine people putting their lives at risk on what the government tells them at this point.

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Press Release at 12:45PM Friday 2/10/2017

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Saturday 2/11/2017

[glasseye]

There is something going on there.
There have been no aerial views of the dam since the emergency spillway opened.
They have ‘closed the airspace’ over the dam. You are not allowed to fly within 4 miles.
http://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/...
I do not expect California to tell me the truth...but I do expect them to cover their asses.

[maggief]

http://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_7_3513.html

[Karl Spooner]

We should find out if they will allow ground photographers fairly soon.

[maggief]

Here’s the guy who was streaming yesterday. His truck is loaded and ready to go. We’ll see if he gets close today. Apparently OPD is blocking access.

https://www.periscope.tv/pseudojd/1OyKAomOpZDJb

http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1964182_Biggest-dam-in-the-country-is-going-to-overflow-this-friday-Big-Update-with-pictures-and-video-pg38.html&page=76

11:03:28 AM EST

I’m going a little slower today. I’ll be out there in ~2 hours.

Yes that was me

I’m going to remember my hat today! I was in such a hurry to see the actual over topping yesterday.

12:24:26 PM EST

Lol, call OPD and ask ‘where can i view it from’

You cant.

[maggief]

[maggief]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVyP472et3A

Lake Oroville Emergency Spillway Overflow

2/12/17 lake Oroville @ 903 ft.

[maggief]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_60JYhIEzUc

Lake Oroville dam update Oroville cal

Published on Feb 12, 2017
The river is filled with rocks and boulders and debris from this overflow spillway in Oroville California