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

I've been following this thread since the beginning
and appreciate all the up-dates and comments...

My "take" at this point (as we seem to be going into
yet another round of "weather disturbances" for the
West Coast PLUS the snow-melt) is that the Oroville is
an incredibly slow-moving "RUN-AWAY-TRAIN." It's almost painful to watch.


[link to youtu.be (secure)]


Here is a clip from the Bruce Willis movie "Unbreakable."
In the clip, he is sitting on a train on a routine
trip...when it begins to accelerate. At first he doesn't
really seem to even notice it (that would be before
the water in the dam actually "topped" the dam and the
emergency spillway was used....) Then, as he realizes
that the train is going way way too fast, you can see
his knuckles go white as he is grabbing onto the chair
grips--watching others beginning to get very nervous.
(That's where IMHO we are as of 3-18-2017.)

The next...is in the emergency ward where he is the
only survivor...and we all know at what point in the
Oroville disaster THAT will be....next week? Next month?

This puppy is going to fail. It's just a matter of when
...and the "patches" are a non-issue in all of it...the real
issue is the way the EVACUATIONS will be handled. That's
where I think they should be putting their focus.

Hope I'm wrong.
Cheers
O'sCookie

Last Edited by TheOracle'sCookie on 03/19/2017 12:59 AM

I completely agree. Water don't care.

Fuckwit. Right. My point is made. You can not disprove my statement thus you resort to vulgarities. Typical Clintonesque snowflake response. True this is GLP but this is not a flat earth thread. This thread is one of REALITY not a psychoses - induced delusional falacy. Either provide facts to confirm your statement or go fly a kite in a busy intersection. I'm not going to waste any more of my time responding to your childish self - indulged flaming. Be a man or be gone.

As others concentrate their energies on invective toward others, I would like to point out the lack of discharge on the side-chutes of the MS, which was a huge issue before (with lots of hubbub on this thread) and now there is virtually no flow out of those side drains.

Thoughts anyone?

quit stalking me you little piece of shit.

On Feb 20, and 120 pages ago on this thread, I broke the story about the naturally-occurring asbestos in the underlying rock.

LA Times had a story about it 2 days ago.

Welcome to the party bitches.

Typical liberal snowflake claiming personal defense as stalking.

Grow a pair & be a real man. Better yet... stop trying to derail the thread with toys frivolous & irrelevant banter. You got caught in your bovine scatology, got called out... enough of your garbage. No one wants to read it. Get a job & get a lige. I have one... gotta get to bed for work tomorrow. And lodge duties afterwards.

yup. in the 1950s they found a mountain of Asbestos in Canada.
so they had to find a market for it, and started
putting it in everything except our breakfast cereal.

Or did they...???

Did they build a new emergency Chanel?
Has anyone commented on the new "road" that is way too straight for a road, that goes kinda from the right edge of the parking lot to the river? Right seen from the dam as they taught us on metabunk.
Seen clearly at around 4 minutes in the last flyover video by Juan.
Not seen in his first flyover video february.
Here the last flyover


Last Edited by Northlights on 03/19/2017 05:06 AM

I sure hope so. That would be the single most sensible and important thing they've done since this whole situation began.

2AM:

Level: 857.44
Outflows: 47,327
Inflows: 15,596
River rel.: 47,847


Lots of 20,000+ cfs inflows overnight. That ain't good... Starts raining tomorrow in earnest...and continues for a long time.

Date/Time_______RESELE__STORAGE__OUTFLOW__INFLOW__R​IVREL

03/18/201715:00__859.43__2936851__47872__22135__490​59
03/18/201716:00__859.24__2934222__47829__26014__483​53
03/18/201717:00__858.98__2930627__47004___9929__481​94
03/18/201718:00__858.82__2928416__47050__11240__481​52
03/18/201719:00__858.61__2925516__47006__16149__480​72
03/18/201720:00__858.45__2923308__46866__15974__479​03
03/18/201721:00__858.30__2921239__47187__20342__479​15
03/18/201722:00__858.16__2919309__47402__22909__481​12
03/18/201723:00__857.97__2916690__47215__20704__481​11
03/19/201700:00__857.82__2914625__47462__19065__479​98
03/19/201701:00__857.65__2912286__47482__20626__480​10
03/19/201702:00__857.44__2909397__47327__15596__478​47

3AM:

Level: 857.32
Outflows: 47,390
Inflows: 19,779
River rel.: 48,193

Don't know if it's been mentioned, but yesterday afternoon, I saw a cement truck and the cement book being used on the ES around the area close to the parking lot.

"Boom"--not "book"

This saga is reminding me of the story of the zoo monkey who would regularly escape his cage and have free reign of the zoo, breaking rules as he saw fit. His favorite trick was to snatch food from the other animals, except that is, the tiger. He was leary of going into the tiger enclosure which btw, was much nicer than his enclosure and received a lot more attention from the visitors.

Truth be told, the monkey was jealous of the tiger and his envy eventually consumed him. One day, throwing caution to the wind the monkey leapt where angels fear to tread and into the tiger enclosure the monkey ventured.

While a new experience for the monkey, the tiger had had other monkeys try the same thing. In fact, in the past the tiger had noticed the monkey spying on him and while appearing to ignore the monkey, the tiger was biding his time.

Once inside the enclosure the monkey was greeted by the tiger by a hard, malovent stare. This was the tiger's territory and no monkeys were tolerated. The tiger's name in his native land was "He who greets with fire". In a flash the tiger was upon the monkey and the only thing the monkey could do was scramble on the tiger's back. Digging his paws in, the monkey held on with grim death.

The tiger enjoyed this part, it was cat and mouse. It always ended with the tiget brushing his back against an overhead branch and knocking the monkey out.

The monkey, named Freemason, never saw the branch coming...

They have cement that will HARDEN under water, in case you do not know. We do not really know just what type they have been using in their repair work.

9AM:

Level: 856.31
Outflows: 46,806
Inflows: 17,020
River rel.: 48,065

They keep reducing the outflow...

Hmmm....

Lol. Do you know what that much water does to a none-smooth service -- based on your comment you have no clue. Go take a 300 level hydrodynamics course. Or even a basic one on OCW (this one is free).

even with the most recent MS patching job, DWR still
doesn't seem to understand the Physics of Cavitation.

I am quite convinced there is no true civil engineer on this job. And even if there is one, they don't have a single ffs background in water. I bet money they don't even have sonogram experience or they are being paid to keep their mouth shut. Because my rumph would have been yelling from the roof tops.

10AM:

Level: 856.20
Outflows: 46,778
Inflows: 23,498
River rel.: 48,067

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11AM:

Level: 856.06
Outflows: 46,842
Inflows: 25,861
River rel.: 48,009

Last Edited by thor1872 on 03/19/2017 02:17 PM

A few new pages are added every day. You can see from yesterday's photos that they are still doing a lot of work on ES. It was near dark when the cement truck was up by the weir doing whatever they were. I was hoping to see a photo of that.

[link to pixel-ca-dwr.photoshelter.com (secure)]

I have this site marked as a favorite and check it daily.

Freemason -- :african:

BillyBob her n maybe they could cement in a million giant prehistoric tortus shells fix 'er up good


Last Edited by DGN on 03/19/2017 02:42 PM

They bolted the top of the spillway to rock. I figured those bumps were the tops of bolts. I never saw them in old footage so I figured they are new. Right? What else could it be but new bolts?