Posted on 02/12/2017 9:36:04 PM PST by Kartographer
An immediate evacuation for Oroville and areas downstream has been ordered. Supervisor Bill Connelly said specifically people who live in Downtown Oroville, Thermalito, and Palermo. The Department of Water Resources said the the mandatory evacuation is now extending to the Sutter County line.
An evacuation center has been set up at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds in Chico. The Elks Lodge in Paradise is also opening their RV Park for free to evacuees. Space is limited in the RV Park.
Highway 99, leaving Oroville, has been shut down to all southbound traffic and all four lanes will be open to northbound traffic.
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Moonbeam, you some splaining to do.
Trump needs to get the Feds to amealerate this and then beat the 'rats about their heads for their incompentence.
I thought the level was now below the top and the spillway isn’t even spilling water any more? Does anyone know what’s going on over there?
But we have a high speed train being built somewhere down south. Never mind the dam. Oh and the railroad track behind my house has no trains on it either because of a derailment going over the flooded area south of Sacramento. The infrastructure is all deteriorating, but hey we have illegal felons to protect.
Sheriff is making decisions because they don’t have any model for this scenario. They are just doing guess work. Avoiding human loss because of lack of analysis.
THAT IS NOT A LIVE STREAM.
It has always
puzzled me why anyone would live below a damn
They’ve set up contraflow on multilane highways to aid evacuation, that’s something I’ve only heard of in the southeast ahead of hurricane landfall in this country. So, it does appear that there was at least some emergency planning, which is a relief. I’ve been sitting here dumbfounded that the situation has been allowed to get so far out of hand to begin with. That deferred maintenance is criminal. Heads should roll, but I suspect they won’t, since the Democrat controlled state government is obviously unconcerned about the Republican parts of the state.
Colusa County Fairgrounds redirecting to Orland
Beale AFB is allowing drive thru from Doolittle Gate to Grass Valley gate; also setting up a shelter at the gym - park at Dragon Town for the bus
http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article132332499.html
http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article132332499.html
More rain due later this week.
That part of the state is republican territory as is almost all of CA north of Sacramento.
That part of the state is republican territory as is almost all of CA north of Sacramento.
More rain coming Wednesday, for several days. Supposed to be as big of a rain event as the one that caused this - by raising lake level 20 ft. Only now it is full, and they had to shut down part of the power plant, so even more flow headed towards the spillway. The lower 2/3 of the main spillway is basically destroyed. They are reluctant to put high flows down that because it is eroding towards the damn. This is a compressed earth damn, not a concrete gravity arch like Glen Canyon or Hoover. So they are using the emergency/ auxiliary spillway (for the first time). The concern there is, dumping water over that low wall may (almost certainly will) damage it’s foundation. Can they dump enough without too much damage? If the low wall that forms the auxiliary spillway failed, they uncontrollably dump the top 15 or 20 ft of the lake - causing flooding downstream. My guess is, they will run what they can through the power plant. Dump as much as they can get away with through the main spillway without letting it erode too much further towards the damn. Then the rest goes over the wall and erodes the heck out of that hillside. If that wall has to fail, so be it, they will sacrifice that to save the dam and prevent an even larger disaster.
Correct me if I’m wrong but the main spillway appears to be located on natural topography, it’s a hillside not the manmade earthen dam. Looks to me as if the likelihood of catastrophic failure is far less with the main spillway than with the emergency spillway, which does pose a risk to the manmade earthen dam. Worst case with failure of the main spillway is the 30 ft of water off the top of the reservoir being cut loose down the side of that hill, not a good scenario but far better than the dam itself failing.
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