Posted on 02/12/2017 5:55:03 PM PST by Mariner
"Officials are anticipating a failure of the Auxiliary Spillway at Oroville Dam within the next 60 minutes (5:45 p.m.)," the California Department of Water Resources said on Facebook.
The Yuba County Office of Emergency Services said on Facebook an evacuation has been for "all Yuba County on the valley floor."
The city of Marysville and Yuba County have been ordered to evacuate, the Marysville Police Department tweeted.
(Excerpt) Read more at kcra.com ...
Might be that because it is SUNDAY night, and most news crews, have the Chief of the department in bed reading to get up at 4 a.m. and sort out the wires.
Pray there is no earthquake in the area. Liquefaction could occur and allow the earth to rip loose on the land side of the emergency spillway. I don’t know the geology around there, but I just hope the engineers that built the dam knew what they were doing.
The visible erosion shown on the daylight videos was soil eroding.
Rock is used when it’s a resource that is available. There are plenty of earthen dams in the SE US that are nothing more than a compacted clay core with silty loam soil as the shell on either side.
Right. We’re not talking about just Sunday night.
Water going through cracks in the soft limestone???
Ignore button could be employed, if a tree falls and no one listens, etc?
If they did, it was done several years ago. The spillway damage was known in 2013, yet Gov Moonbeam Brown has done nothing much to fix it. Back then, it would have been easy during the drought when the lake level was much lower. Gov Brown was working on sanctuary items for illegals, and ignored the dam problem. Now it's a damn problem and he wants a federal bailout to fix it. I have an idea, drop all the illegal aliens into the hole and see if that patches the spillway.
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The dam was built against undisturbed native limestone.
The face had soil overburden, and that is mostly what erodes first, but the limestone can also erode, especially if it is exposed to weather for a long period.
It “chalks.”
I have a hole in my fiberglass bathtub. That is catastrophic for me. Can’t imagine a spillway.
I would have thought Obama’s Stimulus would have taken care of the repairs.
Looks like a shovel ready job to me.
I sure hope the Teacher’s Unions used the Stimulus money wisely.
Thank you all, but I don’t live below Oroville Dam, I live below Lake Isabella Dam, which is damaged, but not a danger right now.
Good grief. WTH is going on? If a major story like this isn’t breaking news...what IS?
Fires, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, floods...FR was always the place to get it ..sometimes before the wires, and nearly always there’s a freeper there or close by to give us the local perspective.
Meanwhile. Thanks maggie!
“The morons running California spend billions on illegals and welfare for criminals and can’t even build a spillway that works.”
Well that spillway was built in the 1960’s and has never been used! But it does seem that someone should have looked into it’s condition.
Good to know. Thanks!
GOP strongholds are in the path.
Pretty much farms, farmers, and the communities which
serve the farms. Outside of Marysville, in Yuba County
is Beale AFB which is a U2 base. I reside 30 miles to
the east in the Sierra Nevada foothills. No chance of
floods, just mudslides.
May be why not a priority for Moonbeam. Monetary Fed help should go local, not to the state.
Oh, yes it is...Moldovia is smack dab in the center of the action.
Yeah, my brother lives in Colusa, farms and duck hunters, not Libs.
I guess buckhead-esque journalism is dead ‘round here.
Sad.
who owns the dam?
corpse of engineers
California
somebody else?
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