Northern California may face ‘significant risk’ from Oroville Dam
AN FRANCISCO (AP) —
California is courting a “very significant risk” if a damaged spillway on the nation’s tallest dam is not operational by the next rainy season, and the state’s plan leaves no time for any delays, a team of safety experts has warned in a report obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.....
Water was even seeping from seemingly undamaged stretches of the main spillway, the experts said. Only 12 inches thick, the concrete spillway is heavily patched, at some places by clay stuffed into holes below the concrete.
“This calls into question whether the portions of the slab that appear undamaged by the failure should be replaced,” the consultants said, raising the prospect of a much bigger long-term repair job.
Fully repairing the spillway will likely take two years, the consultants said. California still has at least a month left in the current, unusually wet rainy season. A record snowfall in the Sierra Nevada will send more and more runoff into Lake Oroville as weather warms.....
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Northern California May Face Significant Risk From Oroville Dam
As of 4 pm California time on March 23rd, the lake level is at 846 feet
It has dropped 2 feet in the previous 24 hours.
The target for shutting off the flow is 835 feet.
It might be a 5 or 6 day wait to see what happens next.
It is strange to think that we won’t really know what is going on
until Juan Browne gets back from Brazil! (lol)