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California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 21157601  United States02/27/2017 07:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed Free armchair civil engineer advice in case anyone from Oroville is lurking here: Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73832234 [link to imgur.com] 1. The spillway is shot 2. It will need to be repoured entirely 3. Demolish entire upper part of spillway 4. Push demolished upper spillway concrete down into cavity to fill 5. Repour the whole gotdamn thang You're welcome. That is cheap advice and not the worse part. You forgot they need to tear out the entire gate system that is on the verge of shearing off. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 35799703 United States02/27/2017 08:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed Free armchair civil engineer advice in case anyone from Oroville is lurking here: Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73832234 [link to imgur.com] 1. The spillway is shot 2. It will need to be repoured entirely 3. Demolish entire upper part of spillway 4. Push demolished upper spillway concrete down into cavity to fill 5. Repour the whole gotdamn thang You're welcome. can't accomplish all that with needing to open and close the MS to lower the lake all the time and because of the incoming Spring snow-melt floods and more rain. can you recommend some patching work to just get us by till summer? |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 73421978  Canada02/27/2017 08:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed Free armchair civil engineer advice in case anyone from Oroville is lurking here: Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73832234 [link to imgur.com] 1. The spillway is shot 2. It will need to be repoured entirely 3. Demolish entire upper part of spillway 4. Push demolished upper spillway concrete down into cavity to fill 5. Repour the whole gotdamn thang You're welcome. That is cheap advice and not the worse part. You forgot they need to tear out the entire gate system that is on the verge of shearing off. Why do you think the gate system is on the verge of tearing off? |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 7759106 United States02/27/2017 08:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed yes those pics are amazing!!!....wow...no damage huh...no structures threatened huh...under cut on that spillway is still doom on come high flow! Garrett Ace 400- Check Garrett Pin Pointer Pro- Check Gold Pans- Check High Banker- Check See you after the rainy season. There's got to be gold in there. Wish I was nearby. I'm not close, but I might have to go on a camping trip! You saw how much the bed rock was cut into. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 73421978 Canada02/27/2017 08:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed Free armchair civil engineer advice in case anyone from Oroville is lurking here: Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73832234 [link to imgur.com] 1. The spillway is shot 2. It will need to be repoured entirely 3. Demolish entire upper part of spillway 4. Push demolished upper spillway concrete down into cavity to fill 5. Repour the whole gotdamn thang You're welcome. can't accomplish all that with needing to open and close the MS to lower the lake all the time and because of the incoming Spring snow-melt floods and more rain. can you recommend some patching work to just get us by till summer? I doubt they'll be doing much work to the spillway until summertime when they hopefully won't have to be using the spillway at all. |
Flyover County  User ID: 33986322 United States02/27/2017 08:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed ... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 74183185 yes those pics are amazing!!!....wow...no damage huh...no structures threatened huh...under cut on that spillway is still doom on come high flow! Garrett Ace 400- Check Garrett Pin Pointer Pro- Check Gold Pans- Check High Banker- Check See you after the rainy season. There's got to be gold in there. Wish I was nearby. I'm not close, but I might have to go on a camping trip! You saw how much the bed rock was cut into. Good luck if you go. You might be very wealthy If something can corrupt you then you're already corrupt. Bob Marley |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 21157601 United States02/27/2017 08:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed Free armchair civil engineer advice in case anyone from Oroville is lurking here: Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73832234 [link to imgur.com] 1. The spillway is shot 2. It will need to be repoured entirely 3. Demolish entire upper part of spillway 4. Push demolished upper spillway concrete down into cavity to fill 5. Repour the whole gotdamn thang You're welcome. That is cheap advice and not the worse part. You forgot they need to tear out the entire gate system that is on the verge of shearing off. Why do you think the gate system is on the verge of tearing off? The crack was the confirmation I needed, but do you know what millions of pounds of constant running water does even to an intact spillway. Bouncy Bouncy Bouncy Bouncy Bouncy Non-engineers have it in their brains that solid items can't twist and turn. Ford delivered cars to a rental agency, ten at a time, and they had to be jacked all the way down, where only have the back tire was visible. What happened? Almost every frac'n vehicle had frame damage and one in ten was not even road worthy. Nope you don't hear that on the news. That is experience. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 7759106 United States02/27/2017 08:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed ... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 7759106 Garrett Ace 400- Check Garrett Pin Pointer Pro- Check Gold Pans- Check High Banker- Check See you after the rainy season. There's got to be gold in there. Wish I was nearby. I'm not close, but I might have to go on a camping trip! You saw how much the bed rock was cut into. Good luck if you go. You might be very wealthy Not worried about getting wealthy, just to cover my expenses. You never know what you might find, or not find. Here's a little history on the area. [link to www.goldcalifornia.net] |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 24518639 United States02/27/2017 08:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed These numbers make no sense: Quoting: Anonymous Coward 71216711 02/27 3:00pm 838.33 2654828 0 23539 14615 39.32 13.4 02/27 4:00pm 838.22 2653408 0 2673 14475 39.32 13.4 What they may suggest though is massive, unreported leakage somewhere.... I know I am crazy but y'all should be use to me by now. The wet ground that I keep focusing on -- could there be an undercurrent over there on the back side of the chutes that we can't see that is flowing below the surface and creating these crazy numbers? Look at that long YouTube video from today and you can see this area. It hasn't dried out for days so it's staying wet somehow. [link to www.parks.ca.gov (secure)] In the Aux Spillway angle, you can actually see puddled water on this wet spot that I did not see earlier today. Change in light I guess but, the chutes are now shut too. |
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| #Geomagnetic_Storm# (OP) User ID: 73775779 United States02/27/2017 08:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 5368672 United States02/27/2017 08:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed I bet they eventually fill that whole gat danged gouge back in. They're already stockpiling rock there along the cliff. Plus they'll dredge the bottom out, that whole pile of sandbar crap, and shove it back up in there too. Rebuild of whole dang spillway, maybe redesign, maybe rebuild whole new gate system and spillway where the ES is, who knows. These boys have some serious dad burned equipment at their disposal, if they can keep the thing from disintegrating completely, they'll put 'er back together. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 49141273  Ireland02/27/2017 08:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed yes those pics are amazing!!!....wow...no damage huh...no structures threatened huh...under cut on that spillway is still doom on come high flow! Garrett Ace 400- Check Garrett Pin Pointer Pro- Check Gold Pans- Check High Banker- Check See you after the rainy season. There's got to be gold in there. Wish I was nearby.  |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 7759106 United States02/27/2017 08:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed I bet they eventually fill that whole gat danged gouge back in. They're already stockpiling rock there along the cliff. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 5368672 Plus they'll dredge the bottom out, that whole pile of sandbar crap, and shove it back up in there too. Rebuild of whole dang spillway, maybe redesign, maybe rebuild whole new gate system and spillway where the ES is, who knows. These boys have some serious dad burned equipment at their disposal, if they can keep the thing from disintegrating completely, they'll put 'er back together. You can't re-build a spillway on back fill. It has to be solid undisturbed ground. They will have to pull something out of there ass and completely re-engineer the whole damn thing. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 7759106 United States02/27/2017 08:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed ... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 74183185 yes those pics are amazing!!!....wow...no damage huh...no structures threatened huh...under cut on that spillway is still doom on come high flow! Garrett Ace 400- Check Garrett Pin Pointer Pro- Check Gold Pans- Check High Banker- Check See you after the rainy season. There's got to be gold in there. Wish I was nearby.  |
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| Use your brian, moran! User ID: 4806607 United States02/27/2017 08:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed Crazy, right?! I'm a proud Texan & American, posting from Central Texas & have no clue why my flag shows friggin Canada(no offense to my Canadian friends). "Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." Diderot "Immigration without assimilation is invasion!" - Anonymous Coward Gird your lions, shave your Family & panic sex the 'maters! "When your so-called religion is purely a political theory of conquest, and deception is one of it's core principles then it strikes me as perfectly sane and reasonable to assume literally everyone who is of such a "religion" to be exactly the same POS who deserves to be treated as the enemy non-stop." Darkwolf007 |
| Crunch62 User ID: 74050475 United States02/27/2017 08:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed man i wish we could the footage from that lower copter...he can see the gold up close. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 74183185 At the end of that video, it looked like they were already panning downstream with an excavator bucket. I've been married so long, I don't even look both ways when I cross the street. |
| Use your brian, moran! User ID: 4806607 United States02/27/2017 08:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed I am 3.5 hours away from the Dam. Where should I pan for gold in the coming weeks? Never done it. Quoting: #Geomagnetic_Storm# Right below the spillway. You can pick up a personal, portable, slucebox for around a bill. Check around boulders, anywhere that a new stream formed, cutting the hillside down to bedrock should be checked, especially where it meets the Feather River. I'm a proud Texan & American, posting from Central Texas & have no clue why my flag shows friggin Canada(no offense to my Canadian friends). "Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." Diderot "Immigration without assimilation is invasion!" - Anonymous Coward Gird your lions, shave your Family & panic sex the 'maters! "When your so-called religion is purely a political theory of conquest, and deception is one of it's core principles then it strikes me as perfectly sane and reasonable to assume literally everyone who is of such a "religion" to be exactly the same POS who deserves to be treated as the enemy non-stop." Darkwolf007 |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 73509580 United States02/27/2017 08:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed What does below mean? "jacked all the way down"? Non-engineers have it in their brains that solid items can't twist and turn. Ford delivered cars to a rental agency, ten at a time, and they had to be jacked all the way down, where only have the back tire was visible. What happened? Almost every frac'n vehicle had frame damage and one in ten was not even road worthy. Nope you don't hear that on the news. That is experience. |
| Crunch62 User ID: 74050475 United States02/27/2017 08:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed What does below mean? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73509580 "jacked all the way down"? Non-engineers have it in their brains that solid items can't twist and turn. Ford delivered cars to a rental agency, ten at a time, and they had to be jacked all the way down, where only have the back tire was visible. What happened? Almost every frac'n vehicle had frame damage and one in ten was not even road worthy. Nope you don't hear that on the news. That is experience. Below, in this discussion, means 'downstream' I've been married so long, I don't even look both ways when I cross the street. |
| Booger Cancer User ID: 13299994 United States02/27/2017 08:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed Dang, that looks like an unfixable mess. Maybe if they can get the power plant up and running again, the 13,500 cfs would give them the margin they need to keep the main spillway dry for a long period of time where they could find bedrock to rebuild. Highly doubtful, however. Alternatively, how would they take the dam down permanently? What would that do to the areas below the dam? And how would Southern California be affected in terms of water supply? Yes, I did cure my Stage 4 cancer in two weeks when I was 48. I also reversed my chronic kidney disease (glomerulonephritis) when I was 25. In neither case were any medical treatments involved. |
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