Going on down, down
Working in a coal mine
Oops, about to slip down
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Lee Dorsey-Working In The Coal Mine(1966)
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New images added at the beginning of the series. They’re really attacking that pile of debris/rubble at the bottom of the spillway.
Related to those picture, the two issues I see and posted earlier are...
1) The Main Spillway damage is so gargantuan that until the rainy season is over, if the Main Spillway is needed, it will continue to move earth and rock into the middle of the river below and back it up into the power plant. I mean even remedial repair looks like it would take weeks or months to fix that problem. I don’t know exactly what they plan to do in the next seven days. I don’t know how long a permanent fix would take.
2) The Emergency Spillway looks more threatening to cause a catastrophic emptying of the reservoir and flooding from its failure. Maybe the whole Emergency Spillway design needs an overhaul including the un-anchored upside-down half shell at the top. Have no idea how long that could take.
Is it possible that the time to do the job right on these spillways could take more that one summer season? If so, couldn’t that change the priorities of what the do first to reasonably hold off a problem next winter and finish the job the following summer?
CAT’s PR department will have field day...
this is far from over....pattern turns more active/wet again soon
and huge snowpack about to start melting
there is still some water flowing out.....and it may be slowly eroding under the ledge of the main spillway similar to the hillside of the ES spillway? When the water was on the flow of the water was pushing it out but now it falling straight down