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Oroville dam spillway damaged

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Climber said:
I don't see any diagrams, paged through first 20 or so pictures.

and the video doesn't run for me...

But, thanks for posting the link anyways.
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You talk about lazy ass reporting, but couldn't scroll halfway down the page in the link I posted to see the same overlay that got posted again a few posts later? For fuck's sake man...
 
MrIncredible said:
The collapsed aquifers will not be able to replenish properly in our lifetime.
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Read "Cadillac Desert" by Marc Reisner. PBS did a documentary film too. Spectacular.
When humans take a bunch of water, something else suffers. The world will evolve and adapt, but I fear the quality of the planet will suffer, Humans. They are like a virus.
 
I had to have a buddy come down to Lincoln to stay with me. It took him almost 6 hours to get from Yuba City to Lincoln last night! Crazy!
 
God be like "first you whine about not enough water, now I give you water and you're still whining, fuck you guys"
 
media is out of control

last week i saw some cad pic of small streams being uncontrolled underneath the concrete dam, and how that one stream broke the overflow spillway and caused that massive hole in it.

now today the media is spinning it that it was a known issue and they wanted to improve the concrete around the overflow areas 12+ years ago.....


wtf is it..... fukn media just like the trump news - so fictional it aint even funny
 
The other thread has a link to the pdf of the filing document in question. It's interesting, but not damning, in my opinion...

link is a pdf download. (didn't really like that...)

But it's an interesting read. Basically, the emergency spillway was an acceptable design... IF... a planned second dam was in place. That second dam was never built, and this 2005 paper addressed the shortcommings of the design in regards to erosion/runoff and it's effects to the feather river.

Another issue seemed to be the apparent lack of following the flood control procedures, that lead to some downstream levee failures in 1997. They were addressing water releases that exceeded 160Kcfs, even though the level of the dam was still well below levels that warranted such a release, when it had already been determined that 150Kcfs was a feather river maximum limit.
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FXCLM5 said:
media is out of control

last week i saw some cad pic of small streams being uncontrolled underneath the concrete dam, and how that one stream broke the overflow spillway and caused that massive hole in it.

now today the media is spinning it that it was a known issue and they wanted to improve the concrete around the overflow areas 12+ years ago.....


wtf is it..... fukn media just like the trump news - so fictional it aint even funny
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:dunno

A coalition of groups went to the Feds and requested a review of the over-flow spillway, pretty much predicting that what did happen would happen.

Should those groups go to Twitter and post: TOLD YA' SO!
 
mean dad said:
I think they're concerned that the flow over the top of the emergency spillway could cause enough erosion behind it to jeopardize the structural integrity.
Wouldn't drain the whole thing but the top two or three feet could go.
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The dam is over 700 feet tall. Yeah erosion could empty 10 or 20 feet and being wider at the top than the bottom thats still a lot of water but no where near a total loss. That was the question and wouldn't be possible without blowing the main dam.
 
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