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To: Louis Foxwell

No catastrophe yet, the water overflow has slowed down greatly in the past few hours, so it looks like the release of the water has helped - but if the storm coming next week is as bad as the last one was, all bets are off ...


6 posted on 02/12/2017 7:00:53 PM PST by Simon Foxx
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To: Simon Foxx

One problem seems to be that the Feather River below the dam can only handle ~100,000 cfs without flooding. The res is full and any time now that the inflow is above 100k, the outlet has to follow to avoid breaching the dam until the res has buffer volume available.


38 posted on 02/12/2017 8:21:21 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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