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BREAKING: Lake Oroville flowing over emergency spillway for first time in dam’s history
Sacramento Bee ^ | 02-11-2017 | Dale Kasler

Posted on 02/11/2017 8:22:22 AM PST by 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.

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KEYWORDS: dam; lakeoroville; oroville; orovilledam; orovillespillway; spillway
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To: abigkahuna

I take it you boggied on out of there by now?


161 posted on 02/12/2017 6:19:03 PM PST by KC Burke (Consider all of my posts as first drafts. (Apologies to L. Niven))
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