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Emergency: California’s Oroville Dam Spillway Near Failure, Evacuations Ordered
Breitbart ^ | Feb 12, 2017 | Joel B. Pollak1

Posted on 02/12/2017 4:26:47 PM PST by janetjanet998

Edited on 02/12/2017 9:33:58 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

The California Department of Water Resources issued a sudden evacuation order shortly before 5 p.m. Sunday for residents near the Oroville Dam in northern California, warning that the dam’s emergency spillway would fail in the next 60 minutes.

The Oroville Dam is the highest in the nation.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: butte; california; dam; dwr; evacuation; lakeoroville; liveoroville; moonbeamcanyon; moonbeammadness; oroville; orovilledam; orovillelive; runaway; spillway; sutter; water; yuba
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To: Uncle Sam 911

ULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SACRAMENTO CA
435 PM PST SUN FEB 12 2017

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SACRAMENTO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
A DAM FAILURE IN...
SOUTH CENTRAL BUTTE COUNTY IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA...

* UNTIL 415 PM PST MONDAY

* AT 419 PM PST, DAM OPERATORS REPORTED A HAZARDOUS SITUATION IS
DEVELOPING WITH THE OROVILLE DAM AUXILIARY SPILLWAY. OPERATION OF
THE AUXILIARY SPILLWAY HAS LEAD TO SEVERE EROSION THAT COULD LEAD
TO A FAILURE OF THE STRUCTURE. FAILURE OF THE AUXILIARY SPILLWAY
STRUCTURE WILL RESULT IN AN UNCONTROLLED RELEASE OF FLOOD WATERS
FROM LAKE OROVILLE.

IN RESPONSE TO THIS DEVELOPING SITUATION, DWR IS INCREASING WATER
RELEASES TO 100,000 CUBIC FEET PER SECOND.

IMMEDIATE EVACUATION FROM THE LOW LEVELS OF OROVILLE AREAS
DOWNSTREAM IS ORDERED. FROM OROVILLE TO GRIDLEY...LOW LEVEL AREAS
AROUND THE FEATHER RIVER WILL EXPERIENCE RAPID RIVER RISES.

THIS IS NOT A DRILL. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. REPEAT THIS IS NOT A
DRILL.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
OROVILLE, PALERMO, GRIDLEY, THERMALITO, SOUTH OROVILLE, OROVILLE
DAM, OROVILLE EAST AND WYANDOTTE.


21 posted on 02/12/2017 4:38:02 PM PST by janetjanet998
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To: janetjanet998

shades of the Saint Francis Dam outside of LA in 1928


22 posted on 02/12/2017 4:38:21 PM PST by Pelham (liberate Occupied California)
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To: HarleyLady27
"Well Governor Brown, where did all the money go for the ‘fast rail’ go to???"

Most likely unions, political cronies or family members of politicians. Nothing ever changes.

23 posted on 02/12/2017 4:38:25 PM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: janetjanet998

Maybe Jerry and Nancy and the other Democrats should worry less about sanctuary cities and high speed trains and worry more about flooding.


24 posted on 02/12/2017 4:38:34 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: janetjanet998

What is your source for this? The emergency spillway for that dam is a few hundred yards to the northwest of the dam, over solid earth. Water over the spillway cannot cause the dam to fail.


25 posted on 02/12/2017 4:39:09 PM PST by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Ask about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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To: stillfree?

That is the result when a rabid leftist named Moonbeam is Governor. He will have blood on his hands if this gets any worse and lives are lost.


26 posted on 02/12/2017 4:40:35 PM PST by Fungi (Every breath, another five thousand fungal spores enter your body. And what are those fungi?)
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To: humblegunner

Yes. There are FR members who live in the area


27 posted on 02/12/2017 4:40:49 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: vette6387

Based on the graph, they were doing OK with the lake level until the last week or so when it rose very quickly. As if there was enormous runoff coming into the lake. Was it unexpected?


28 posted on 02/12/2017 4:41:37 PM PST by meyer (The Constitution says what it says, and it doesn't say what it doesn't say.)
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To: janetjanet998

Wake up Jerry Brown!
Go ask Trump for More Assistance!


29 posted on 02/12/2017 4:42:09 PM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: vette6387

It is like it is deliberate retention that would negatively impact a borderline dam integrity and increase risk to population both in terms of dam break and draught.


30 posted on 02/12/2017 4:42:13 PM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: janetjanet998

The last I looked at, there was a report that the water was up on the parking lot off the side of the dam and that water was now running AROUND the dam-or outside of the dam.

If true, that will cut the banks on the side of that dam and its all over.


31 posted on 02/12/2017 4:43:39 PM PST by crz
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To: GreenLanternCorps

correct but the emergency spillway is very high built ABOVE the bedrock


32 posted on 02/12/2017 4:44:11 PM PST by janetjanet998
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To: Uncle Sam 911
It’s time to pray for those impacted and that the dam will hold. Questions later.

Amen

33 posted on 02/12/2017 4:44:37 PM PST by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: GreenLanternCorps

Have you seen pictures of the emergency spillway failure? It is an earthen damn. It is catastrophic. that thing blows the whole thing blows. Green or lantern, you dont have a bit of engineering corp in you. This is catastrophic.


34 posted on 02/12/2017 4:44:43 PM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools. Go Trump!)
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To: janetjanet998

They are desperately looking for a Republican to blame.


35 posted on 02/12/2017 4:44:48 PM PST by jdsteel (Give me freedom, not more government.)
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To: GreenLanternCorps

At the high point the emergency spillway is adjacent to the dam.


36 posted on 02/12/2017 4:45:44 PM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: crz

EMERGENCY EVACUATION: Auxiliary spillway at Oroville Dam predicted to fail within the next hour. Oroville residents evacuate northward.


37 posted on 02/12/2017 4:45:44 PM PST by janetjanet998
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To: Farmer Dean

Thought just a day ago the government said you all would be fine and not to worry.


38 posted on 02/12/2017 4:45:51 PM PST by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Farmer Dean

Where did the money go to maintain the dam properly?pissed away on social services to illegals?

Yep! The same two bottomless pits that have eaten up our road repair money from our gasoline taxes.

1. The illegals and permanent non workers, aka leeches.

2. The liberals, who run the so called services for the above. Services funded our and your Tax $’s.

When the liberals in the 9th Circus Court killed prop 187, they started the wealthiest state in the union on the road to bankruptcy to pay for the illegals to live and rule in California.

Next, when there were engough liberal voters (see the paragraph above) to give the rats a rat governor and control of both legislative bodies, the state really started to go to hell.

Along the way they packed our Courts with liberal judges to ensure what they passed in the legislature or by prop became the law.


39 posted on 02/12/2017 4:45:52 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Our concerned trolls/NeverTrumpsters, don't know to celebrate winning as they buy into fake nws!)
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To: janetjanet998

Wait, didn’t the leftists-in-charge rename the “emergency spillway” to the “auxiliary spillway”? There should be nothing to fear if our public servants/masters say so, right?

My advice to Americans downstream of this dam is GET-THE-F*CK-OUT-NOW.


40 posted on 02/12/2017 4:46:07 PM PST by WMarshal (President Trump, a president keeping his promises to the American people. It feels like winning.)
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