California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed

Maybe the cracks in the MS gateway was created when they tried to shut the gates.

Current water level - 838.59

this will give them a whole week to drop a mountain
of rubble into the MS.

I have one as well, then upgraded to the 668. My '97 is relegated to signal stalker duty.

Radio Shack used to sell a cable and Scancat lite. Probably can get one on e-bay for $20.

Deep down inside you believe this dam is going to fail. That is obvious due to your emotional attachment.

Do you live nearby? I would understand if you did, the consequences being to large for most people to comprehend.

But of not.....you need a girlfriend.

If they are trying to remain secret, I am pretty certain encryption is used.

Radio technology is very interesting. I am more interested in the hardware reception and developing new methods of radio.

One of my favorites is the rotating mag field receiver. Two toroid inductors, two antennas, then make rotating mag fields opposing each other with current through separate circuit in the two inductors.

Wrap the antenna around an inductor, one for each and have it where one augments the rotating mag field and the other opposes it when a signal is picked up.

Place a coil between the two toroids and that will detect realignment of the magnetic flux.

Close to the toroids, the flux is wound up rotating. In between the mag field turns and becomes linear a the point the rotation changes direction.

When a radio signal is received, one toroid magnifies and the other weakens. Pushing the linear region left/right.

The coil will see the mag field flip 180 degrees producing a strong impulse which leads to the tank circuit or op amp to be furthered along.


It picks up some signal given off by plants when rustled by wind or creature.

Current outflow - 49979
Current inflow - 19002

This is great news though I am skeptical.

Do they want us to believe several inches of rain just magically disappeared?

If they are holding it back, how long can they?

I heard any levees upstream of Oroville are holding back as much as possible and are at max capacity.

I also learned those levees are designed to keep the flow into the lake as balanced as possible to keep stress off the dam.


Now they do not have that ability, which is why the inflow chart started to look rougher, more ups and downs, IMHO. As the upstream levees were not working to keep the inflow balanced, they were working to keep the inflow as little as possible.


This will be a big problem immediately following the next heavy rain or snow melt event.

Last Edited by -Adam- on 02/27/2017 09:50 AM

Except... by regulation of the FCC radio encryption is not permitted except by military.
City/county/state radio operators all have to abide by the same regulations the rest of us HAMS do.

Oh shit..shutting off for a few days starting today or tomorrow...with this warmth coming????...it's going to fill up again quick...lights, camera...ACTION!!!!!

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Being that FEMA is now involved, and is a component of DHS, could that change things in terms of secure communications?

Last Edited by Crunch62 on 02/27/2017 09:58 AM

Declared disaster zone to open federal assistance. Not certain but I can imagine it's not hard to get a military comm set up under such a declaration.

Or they are using cell phones instead of radio. No law against that as far as I know and that is pretty much harder to sniff for the average poster.

Encrypted Agencies


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I heard on line that the name Oroville means ... gold town....
and that beneath the reservoir there are old goldmines !

The main thing to think about is that there are 10 reservoirs that feed into Oroville dam and all of those reservoirs have been sealed off to give the guys at oroville time to repair the slipway or at least pile in the rocks to fill the massive hole being eroded by the water from the slipway ...

time however is running out and those dams are going to have to open the sluices to release the pressure which will mean massive volumes of water soon heading for oroville....

add to that theres no end to the stream of wet weather heading in from the pacific and massive deposits of snow on the hills waiting to melt...

This problem is far from over
If that dam goes the death toll will be in the 1000s and there probably wont be time to evacuate ... it will be like the sunami at fukushima ... the people were trapped in their homes as a killer wave of water and debris rolled in, there was no escape .

If all water stops on the MS this afternoon, do you think they'll release photos?

That is not even the worse part. It is the water action hitting the wall of the MS that is concerning.

We can dream. Just do not hold your breath.

yes but shutting off fills which DWR themselves said they don't plan to use the ES again???...Meaning it will erode away once it runs again...This here is a cat and mouse game that doesn't end good for either.

they will get all the inspection and patchwork done
just before the lake reaches 901,
and then start draining the Lake again.

what's the problem?

here's a new video from yesterday...I'm wondering how this guy was able to fly over the dam...but he did and you have to check it out...

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Call me a doubting Thomas, but just because a video is released yesterday doesn't mean it was taken yesterday. The only reason I am saying this is because I truly think the spray is coming from further up the MS now and that isn't reflected in this video.

In that video I saw no workers or equipment.
What does that mean?

yes could be but notice those big boulders at the bottom are all but gone...damage looks the same as pictures and video released yesterday...but I agree the damage looks higher based on DWR pictures from yesterday.

Excellent current video! Thanks for that. Embedded for those who need it.

It looks like they are gradually reducing the main spillway flows as planned.

Release currently at 40036 CFS.

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water release must be almost off now. Very minimal spray noted up by the MS.

Lol. The dude said (up there somewhere) they can do patchwork. Hahhahahahha. These folks have no clue that there is no such thing as patching the MS. They need to go back and read the entire thread.

Patchwork Hahhahahahha. I can't stop. Lol.