That’s what I’m starting to wonder.. is this a planned failure?
Either A) the engineers, at design, never dreamed there could be rainfall like there has been recently (unlikely), B) Engineers assigned to the dam are crooked and not reporting decay - and where is ACE on this?! - or C) somebody wanted that dam to fail.
Never attribute to stupidity that which is explainable by malice.
Jerry Brown’s merry band of bureaucrats have been in charge too long. CA has had several periods much above average rainfall since 1968, not a problem before. DWR waited too long looking at the “hole” in the regular spillway...should have been releasing at 50,000+ CFS all along and fix the spillway later. Now they are behind the curve and doing 133000+ CFS to try and prevent water from going around the end of the emergency spillway.
Lake level is down about a foot since 8am:
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryF?s=ORO&d=12-Feb-2017+19:43&span=12hours
There was a thread a few months back about a dam in Iran looking like it was going to fail.
did that thing ever go down?