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Oroville dam spillway damaged

Maybe they can cancel the HSR to nowhere project and use the money for infrastructure where it's really needed!
 
Gotta love the fact that the water levels were how low for how long? Yet they couldn't get around to maintaining this? Bart janitors sucking up all the damn budget.
 
Rebus said:
I guess they reopened the gates, and now the spillway has failed:

https://twitter.com/sheehytl/status/829801951273558016/photo/1

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FUUUUUCCKKKKKKK :wow

The scary part is that keeping it open is their only good option at this point. That emergency overflow has not shut off and it doesn't filter anything. Trees, rocks, you name it, it will go down that side...
 
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Making more work for themselves and eroding quite a bit, but the water still goes roughly where it should. Pretty gnarly though. There's going to be sooooooo much road work and repairs like this come spring.
 
Thats a really long spillway and the damage looks a long way from the top.
The angle of those pics make it look worse than it is but its still pretty bad
 
Blankpage said:
Thats a really long spillway and the damage looks a long way from the top.
The angle of those pics make it look worse than it is but its still pretty bad
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No its really bad. There is a picture on the net with the crew inside it. They look like ants and you don't see them at first.

250' length
45' deep
140' wide
 
Entoptic said:
No its really bad. There is a picture on the net with the crew inside it. They look like ants and you don't see them at first.

250' length
45' deep
140' wide
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DAM!!!
 
But with the reservoir so full, they'd have to release water anyways. Is there a big difference while doing it with a gaping hole in the spillway? They claim the hole will not threaten the structural integrity of the dam itself. And is Sac really in danger of flooding?
 
No, Sac won't flood anymore than if the spillway was functioning correctly. They are releasing the same amount of water either way. Just more debris and I guess there is some concern about turbidity for the fishies.

It's instructive to use Google Earth to see the various diversions coming off of there...

My cousin is a geologist who was up there today (or posted pic today) on the FB before that latest pic was taken while they had it closed.

They are just gonna let it go then rebuild in the summer. Nothing else they can do. Warm storm is melting snow.
 
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As much as everyone might want to blame some entity, Dems, whatever, I have to think that shrinking clay from drought is going to be years worth of damage all over the state. Just watching my immediate environment, areas I know, has been interesting. Everything changed and shrunk as the drought got worse and worse.
 
The cause found.
 

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