Happy Thanksgiving,
I’m waiting for the new events to unfold. Of particular, the release of the Independent Forensics Team final report.
First, thank you to KCBurke and the many other Freepers who contributed to the historical record contained here. And thanks to Jim and John Robinson for hosting this document.
“I’m waiting for the new events to unfold. Of particular, the release of the Independent Forensics Team final report.”
Do you think the “Independent” Forensics report will be objective? Will they have read this thread I wonder?
I’m not an engineer so cannot understand much of what has been posted by you and the other experts here. What I did retain is:
1) the implication of the wet patch on the side of the dam, and
2) the malfunctioning gate 7(?), and
3) the shocking non-replacement of all piezometers (sp).
Stunning discoveries made thanks to the dogged work of journalists, honest scientists and our Freeper community.
The big picture I’ve gleaned is that Oroville Dam is crucial to the water supply of agriculture in California’s Central Valley because it supplies water to the aqueduct running from North to South. And also that the dam was built to supply the growing Los Angeles basin in the 60’s.
If this dam is breached, it will be a catastrophe worse than any other America has suffered. That is what I have learned from this thread. The loss to life of people and livestock, farms, cities from Sacramento to the SF Bay and South to Southern California could take down California’s economy (one of the largest in the world, I believe). When Freepers outside the Great State of California make flippant comments that it ought to be destroyed, they have no idea that a breach of the Oroville Dam will have consequences to their own precious lives as well JimRob and his family in Fresno. ER333, I hope I’m wrong, but as a layman, this is what I’ve concluded from a diligent reading of this thread.
May rational forces prevail on the DWS and Jerry Brown’s government there so that all of California’s great water project is governed by objective scientists once again. Finally, kudos to Kiewet Engineering Contractors for a job professionally done. We await the Forensic Report.