Failed Oroville Dam Spillway designed by inexperienced grad student in the 1960s
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next big future ^
| 1/11/2018 | brian wang
California’s Department of Water Resources was blasted in an independent report for having a culture of complacency and incompetence that contributed to last year’s near-disaster at Oroville Dam. The full 584 page independent forensic team report is here. The
agency’s largest water storage site and the nation’s tallest dam at Lake Oroville fell into disrepair. In February, pounding rain and large water releases caused the reservoir’s spillway to collapse. A back-up spillway also failed. Fears that water would pour uncontrollably downstream prompted the evacuation of 180,000 people. The independent panel of safety experts said the dam was badly built from...
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Human error played a role in Oroville Dam spillway failure, report finds
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L A Times ^
| Jan 05, 2018 | 5:35 PM | Ralph Vartabedian
Complacency, bureaucracy and an inadequate safety culture led to the failure last year of the Oroville Dam spillway, according to an independent investigation report released Friday. The findings point to human error by a number of organizations but say that the dam's owner, the California Department of Water Resources, was "significantly overconfident
and complacent about the integrity of its State Water Project civil infrastructure, including dams." It describes the department as an "insular organization which inhibited accessing industry knowledge and developing needed technical expertise." Within the department, the engineering division clashed with the operations and maintenance staff, resulting in a...
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Oroville Dam: Cost to repair spillways nearly doubles in price to $500 million
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Mercury News ^
| 10/19/17 | Paul Rogers
OROVILLE — The cost of repairing the crippling damage to Oroville Dam’s spillways caused by last winter’s fierce storms has almost doubled, state water officials said Thursday. Kiewit, the Nebraska-based construction firm that has the main contract to rebuild the main spillway and emergency spillway at Oroville, the nation’s tallest dam, estimated
in its winning bid in April that the work would cost at least $275 million. But the price tag has now grown to at least $500 million, said Erin Mellon, a spokeswoman for the Department of Water Resources.
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Oroville Dam: Man gets 13 years for breaking into market during evacuations
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East Bay Times ^
| August 28, 2017 | Andre Byik
A man has been sentenced to 13 years in state prison after pleading no contest to charges he broke into an Oroville market during the Oroville Dam spillway evacuations in February, Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey announced Friday. Butte County Superior Court Judge Clare Keithley sentenced Teran Washington, 25, of Oroville
on Thursday. Prosecutors accused Washington of blowing out with a shotgun the front doors of the Golden Feather Marketplace in the 700 block of Oro Dam Boulevard West about 7:30 p.m. Feb. 12, after more than 180,000 residents downstream of the dam were ordered to flee the area....
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Oroville Spillways Update for July 14, 2017
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california dwr ^
| 7-14-2017 | california dwr
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Surrounded by Flames, Firefighters in Oroville Rescue U.S. Flag From Wildfire
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KTLA ^
Josh Edelson, the photographer who took the picture, shoots wildfires in California every summer. He
saw the fire, which was about a couple hundred yards away, slowly creeping up the hill toward the home. Firefighters from Cal Fire were spraying water on nearby weeds and doing other preventative measures to defend the house. And then, Edelson said, there was a brief moment of calm. “That was about the time they turned around and saw the flag, and they wanted to get it down,” Edelson told CNN. “But it was pretty high up; they couldn’t reach it.” Edelson said he presumes...
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Oroville Special Update-The 'Wall' Fire 9 July [YouTube]
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blancolirio channel - YouTube ^
| July 9, 2017 | Juan Browne
Here's the lowdown on the Wall fire that blew up on Friday 7 July not far from the Oroville Dam.Stay up to date on the Wall Fire here-https://yubanet.com/Fires/wall/
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Wall Fire Oroville California
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Various | July 9th 2017 | Me
The Wall Fire grew from 2700 acres overnight to 4700 acres. The
fire is located right up the street. This morning P G and E cut power to homes in the area. Evacuations everywhere one turns. For more information, #WallFire. Listening to scanners last night and things got dicey around three am when there were reports of the fire jumping Miner's Ranch Road, but evidently that was not the case as of yet. First it was the dam this winter and now the fire. The Fire began in an area that was hit about four years ago. It has now...
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Oroville Update 28 April "DWR Grilled in Gridley" - Dam Seep? [Video]
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youtube ^
| 29 April 2017 | Juan Browne
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'This is Not Good': Oroville Dam Managers Made Missteps in Handling Crisis
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NBC Bay Area ^
| Apr 19, 2017
Late in the afternoon of Feb. 12, Sheriff Kory Honea was at the emergency operations center for the tallest dam in America when he overheard someone say something that stopped him in his tracks: "This is not good." Over
six straight days, the operators of the Oroville Dam had been saying there was no immediate danger after water surging down the main spillway gouged a hole the size of a football field in the concrete chute. But now suddenly they realized that the dam's emergency backup spillway — essentially an unpaved hillside — was falling apart, too, and could unleash...
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Serious design, construction and maintenance defects doomed Oroville Dam, report says
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Los Angeles Times ^
| April 17, 2017 | Ralph Vartabedian
Design flaws, construction shortcomings and maintenance errors caused the Oroville Dam spillway to break apart in February, according to an independent analysis by Robert Bea for the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management at UC Berkeley.
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Congressman Walks Off Stage During Oroville Town Hall (video)
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CBS Sacramento ^
| 4/17/2017 | Drew Bollea
OROVILLE (CBS13) — The boos and shouts of displeasure started during the introduction of Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale) at his town hall meeting in Oroville. For nearly two hours, the crowd at the State Theater shouted down responses by the congressman. “I’m
appalled,” said Linda Agee, a LaMalfa supporter. “It’s very enlightening and disturbing to experience this first hand,” said Denise Culley, who was attending her first town hall event. The Oroville Dam and spillway was brought up just once. One man asked a question about why nothing was done sooner to the emergency spillway. LaMalfa’s answer was cut short...
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Jerry Brown’s administration blocks public review of Oroville Dam records
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Sacramento Bee ^
| April 11, 2017 3:59 PM | Ryan Sabalow and Dale Kasler
Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration is using federal security regulations written to thwart terrorism to deny public access to records that experts say could guide repairs to the Oroville Dam and provide insight into what led to the near catastrophic failure of its emergency spillway. The
administration also is blocking public review of records that would show how Brown’s office handled the February crisis at Oroville Dam that led to the two-day evacuation of nearly 200,000 Northern Californians.
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Oroville 27 March Update "A Day in the Life"
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Blancolirio YouTube Channel ^
| March 27, 2017 | Juan Browne
DWR just turned the main spillway off as the Reservoir Elevation reaches 836' (Mean Sea Level), the minimum level of the Main Spillway.
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Report: California's Oroville dam’s main spillway must be repaired by November
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Hotair ^
| 03/23/2017 | John Sexton
The Oroville dam has largely faded out of the news in the past few weeks but the crisis is not over yet. A
report on the safety of the dam concluded: “A very significant risk would be incurred if the Gated Spillway is not operational by November 1.†November 1 is the start of the next rainy season. From the Associated Press: Officials with the state Department of Water Resources, which operates the dam, fear a huge rupture that opened in the main spillway could expand to cripple the flood gates that send out controlled releases of water and...
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Remote Viewing March 2017: Farsight Predictions [Oroville Dam]
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Farsight Press ^
| 17 Mar 2017 | self
I ran across this video and eventually ended up watching several in the series. This
is a group (Farsight) that runs experiments in “remote viewing,” something I was not very familiar with, and some of the predictions have been quite interesting (ie, the John Podesta speech on Nov. 8; the riots at the inauguration, which were hand-illustrated in accurate detail; the prison riot and breakout in Delaware; the Queen suffering from dementia and wandering lost in the palace; and the beginning of a problem at the Oroville dam—which the Viewer thought was a ship, and yet his drawing looked exactly...
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Oroville Dam Will Begin Releasing Water Down Its Heavily Damaged Spillway Again Next Week
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sfist ^
| 3/9/17 | Jay Barmann
The primary spillway at Lake Oroville as water rushes down it on Feb. 11 and gets diverted into a crevasse in the adjacent hillside where a portion of the spillway has eroded. Photo:
California Department of Water Resources Brace yourselves for more potential drama as California's Department of Water Resources once again tests Mother Nature's kindness and begins releasing more massive amounts of water down the Oroville Dam spillway next week. The dam's floodgates have been closed since February 27 in order that work crews could clear debris that had collected around the bottom of the spillway and downstream...
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Key Oroville Drain Plugged as Heavy Storms Pounded the Reservoir
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NewsDeeply ^
| 3/8/17 | Matt Weiser
Key Oroville Drain Plugged as Heavy Storms Pounded the Reservoir After a long history of problems, two river outlet valves deep inside Oroville Dam were not operating at a critical time this winter, eliminating one option to help manage severe storm runoff. Written
by Matt Weiser Published on ï³ Mar. 8, 2017 Read time Approx. 5 minutes Oroville Dam on February 27, the aftermath of high runoff from several atmospheric river storms. The damaged main spillway is shown at center and the emergency spillway at left. The river outlets are located at the base of the dam on the far right.Photo...
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Oroville Spillway 6 March NEW CLOSE UP VIDEO DETAILS ON SPILLWAY WORK
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You Tube ^
| 3/8/2017 | waus
New video just put out by Ca. DWR shows work to date performed over the past weekend. Great
video showing damage and construction.
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Denial is a River in California: Can Oroville Spark New Dam Building?
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MasterResource - free market energy blog ^
| March 4, 2017 | Wayne Lusvardi
“Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt” – Mark Twain “Consider a narrow river valley below a high dam, such that if the dam burst, the resulting flood of water would drown people for a considerable distance downstream. When
attitude pollsters ask people downstream of the dam how concerned they are about the dam’s bursting, it’s not surprising that fear of a dam burst is lowest far downstream, and increases among residents increasingly close to the dam. Surprisingly, though … the concern falls off to zero as you approach closer to the dam! That is, the people living immediately under...
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