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All of Yuba County Ordered to Evacuate Immediately.
KCRA Sacramento ^ | February 12th, 2017 | KCRA Staff

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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; dam; evacuation; lakeoroville; marysville; oroville; orovilledam; spillway; water; watersupply; yuba; yubacounty
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To: Jane Long

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.


281 posted on 02/12/2017 7:38:21 PM PST by rovenstinez
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To: Mariner

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.


282 posted on 02/12/2017 7:39:06 PM PST by Jay Redhawk (Diversity for the sake of diversity is just flat out stupidity.)
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To: editor-surveyor

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.


283 posted on 02/12/2017 7:40:39 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: rovenstinez

Right. We’re not talking about just Sunday night.


284 posted on 02/12/2017 7:41:06 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Water going through cracks in the soft limestone???


285 posted on 02/12/2017 7:42:51 PM PST by Ozark Tom
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To: maggief

Ignore button could be employed, if a tree falls and no one listens, etc?


286 posted on 02/12/2017 7:43:10 PM PST by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: 1_Rain_Drop
The Russians hacked the dam?

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.

287 posted on 02/12/2017 7:43:33 PM PST by roadcat
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To: Rebelbase

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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.”


288 posted on 02/12/2017 7:46:40 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Mariner

I have a hole in my fiberglass bathtub. That is catastrophic for me. Can’t imagine a spillway.


289 posted on 02/12/2017 7:48:57 PM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them.)
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To: Karl Spooner

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.


290 posted on 02/12/2017 7:49:18 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: hoosiermama; null and void; Jane Long

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.


291 posted on 02/12/2017 7:50:58 PM PST by umgud
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To: maggief

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!


292 posted on 02/12/2017 7:51:12 PM PST by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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To: soycd

“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.


293 posted on 02/12/2017 7:51:22 PM PST by vette6387
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To: umgud

Good to know. Thanks!


294 posted on 02/12/2017 7:56:19 PM PST by null and void (Trump's critics have evolved from expecting Trump to be Hitler to preferring it.)
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To: cssGA30005

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.


295 posted on 02/12/2017 7:57:06 PM PST by Sivad (NorCal red turf)
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To: Sivad

May be why not a priority for Moonbeam. Monetary Fed help should go local, not to the state.


296 posted on 02/12/2017 7:59:37 PM PST by madison10 (Pray for President Trump and VP Mike Pence Daily)
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To: Repeal The 17th

Oh, yes it is...Moldovia is smack dab in the center of the action.


297 posted on 02/12/2017 7:59:52 PM PST by abigkahuna (How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
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To: Sivad

Yeah, my brother lives in Colusa, farms and duck hunters, not Libs.


298 posted on 02/12/2017 8:00:30 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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To: SE Mom

I guess buckhead-esque journalism is dead ‘round here.

Sad.


299 posted on 02/12/2017 8:00:59 PM PST by maggief
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To: vette6387

who owns the dam?

corpse of engineers
California
somebody else?


300 posted on 02/12/2017 8:02:15 PM PST by RockyTx
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