Pretty amazing video. The trees....stripped.
So I THINK, though I may be disoriented, that around 00:40-00:50 in, is your top left corner at 00:18. If so, it’s not good as a secondary flow would seem to have begun.
Very tough to find updated info, though I read the governor said (last night) there’s significant damage and evacuation must continue.
Today there’s evac beginning near a lake called Toa Vaca.
Nothing new I’ve found either except a few quotes:
“...an engineer reported a ‘contained breach”..”
Breach means path way for flow, from upstream face to downstream face”, and an engineer would know that.
Governor today said “significant structural damage...” Last night said “fissure”.
CNN’s original article said “...a fissure...” and “...a crack...”
On Google and other aerials, you can see an intake structure of some kind above the area we are discussing, in the lake. But Google also shows that same area, on the downstream toe, looking like...an unaddressed but dry series of potholes. Not anywhere close to as “engineered” as that spillway. If this is an outlet structure, it’s pretty jank.
Speaking of Jank, (note capitalization)... NW of Ponce is the spanking new Portugeus dam, built by the ACE. Very posh.
ENE of Ponce, we have the...venerable...ahhh, dirtpile, holding back Lake Cerrillos. Sketch looking wier type emergency spillway, ala Oroville, no other options, and well...look at the footprint. It’s crooked. The transit must have been broken that day, and who-ever eyeballed it had a snootfull.
If you claim Toa Vaca in the pool, I get dibs on Cerrillos.