Moonbeam Canyon is the 100’ deep (+/-) canyon that was made when the side of the main spillway blew out and cut a new channel blasting rotten rock and earth into the Feather River below.
I named it that a month ago when we were trying to figure out both how deep it was and how it would ever be backfilled to allow the main spillway to span it. I thought about it and decided that in California’s current administration there could only be one appropriate backfill that was massive enough to stay in place — Bullet Trains — and only one name for the gapping maw — Moonbeam Canyon.
Well, certainly a moment of genius.
What can we do to christen it and make it official? I mean, they’re not planning on filling Moonbeam Canyon are they? Would seem like a useless exercise plus we need something to memorialize this whole Oroville Dam thing.