The
Oroville Dam spillway is damaged beyond repair
There will always be people who will say that this is "fear porn".
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It is hard to imagine why the authorities would go to such lengths to suppress discussion of this unless there was something to the story.
The way I see it is that the spillway is inoperable and they are using other methods to try (in vain) to release water from the lake. They can never keep up with the rain, the snow melt and water from resevoirs upstream.
Here are my screenshots of key parts of the article -
https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/just-in/2017-07-27/bob-bea-takes-us-deep-dive-through-his-dire-oroville-report
Here is another video report from this morning
This is a photograph of damage in 2017
There will always be people who will say that this is "fear porn".
To those people I would say "discretion is the better part of valour". What have people to lose from heeding this? Taking action before disaster might just save lives.
PLEASE LISTEN.
There is also this:
NOT
GOOD!!
Water is going to back up QUICKLY ... and could lead to some major dam issues if they can't start releasing again:
from link:
"...The operators of Lake Oroville dam planned to increase the release of water at the dam to 70,000 cubic feet per second to make room in the lake for runoff from the current storm.
The peak release began around noon Tuesday. That’s when witnesses said they began to see chunks of concrete coming off the spillway..."
To put that into perspective the NORMAL release that the Hoover Dam does into the Grand Canyon is 12,500 cubic feet per second!!
https://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message3445731/pg1Water is going to back up QUICKLY ... and could lead to some major dam issues if they can't start releasing again:
from link:
"...The operators of Lake Oroville dam planned to increase the release of water at the dam to 70,000 cubic feet per second to make room in the lake for runoff from the current storm.
The peak release began around noon Tuesday. That’s when witnesses said they began to see chunks of concrete coming off the spillway..."
To put that into perspective the NORMAL release that the Hoover Dam does into the Grand Canyon is 12,500 cubic feet per second!!
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This is being actively censored.
The Oroville Dam Watch Group was served with a "cease and desist notice" from a court the other day.
This link to an article in Action News has been REMOVED.
It is hard to imagine why the authorities would go to such lengths to suppress discussion of this unless there was something to the story.
These are the current lake levels.
The way I see it is that the spillway is inoperable and they are using other methods to try (in vain) to release water from the lake. They can never keep up with the rain, the snow melt and water from resevoirs upstream.
I believe, on the basis of the information I have at my hands, that this is a disaster in the making. The best action would be to get out of that. Aside of that one can only pray for a miracle.
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Bob Bea is a California-based forensic engineer who has been called in to investigate disasters like Deepwater Horizon and Hurricane Katrina. He is top of his profession.
Bob Bea Takes Us on a Deep Dive Through His Dire Oroville Report
Here are my screenshots of key parts of the article -
https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/just-in/2017-07-27/bob-bea-takes-us-deep-dive-through-his-dire-oroville-report
Here is another video report from this morning
And Margo's latest report from yesterday.
Here's the latest announcement - note next to last paragraph that states they may use the MS later this spring. Here's the link:
ReplyDeletehttps://water.ca.gov/News/Blog/2019/May-2019/How-DWR-is-Managing-Lake-Oroville-in-an-Above-Average-Water-Year
Earth filled dam, leaking water = no problem?
ReplyDeleteAre they CRAZY!
Water can quickly erode soil!
Why wasn't there CONCRETE & ROCK under that spillway? Soil has very little strength for support under a spillway, no wonder it failed!
I am so very glad I don't live anywhere near Sacramento or Oroville, if that dam fails, it's going to wipe out a lot of communities.
Those poor folks need to keep a close eye on that dam & be prepared to evacuate.
They also say the problems with the gates are no problem....but there are multiple ...No Problems.....add up to big problem
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