Do you think the Dams are going to break.Trying to understand your posts,Thanks Jeffers.
I have concerns about the old concrete gate structures. And so does ACE. They’ve executed some major repairs on them, and right now, theu’ve built cofferdams and dried in workspace to build completely new ones, which aren’t completed yet.
They announce plans to release water at 4000 cfs, video of which looks like max capacity, plus, mske a pointed oublic statement that they have no plans to run them harder than that, then, per a post here, run them at four times that.
I think the dams are in pretty solid shape for the task at hand. Well funded, used frequently and funded by a major metro area, not very tall etc.
I question why ACE would push the old gate structures. They know they can’t stop the spillovers. Oroville showed us what happens, when under planned aux spillways get used the first time, and what happens when obvious drainage problems adjacent to concrete used for heavy outflow are ignored. Maybe 16,000 cfs isn’t a strain, in their experience. Maybe it’s a bad number via bad reporting. Maybe ACE is feeling heat over 1000+ mid to high end homes flooding to 2nd story level for months, even though they never wanted them there to begin with. Maybe they know things about the aux spillways, or spillover pathways, or inflow rates we aren’t aware of. That 16,000 cfs number sticks out, and draws my attention.