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California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed
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There is plenty of discussion. 800 bloody pages worth. If you missed the finer points, please skim it.
They are blessed it is still staniding now. And remember a dam failure does not mean the main dam collapses. Get that out of your head folks.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 21185155 What would stop the dam from cutting away if one of the spillways collapse? There's a damn big chunk of hill/mountainside between the spillway and the dam. It is made up of soft tailings. It would cut away in minutes, or less, if there is failure. I've witnessed this up close. Water is extremely powerful...it takes no prisoners. They ran water down that damaged spillway for many days and it only cut a small (relative to the whole size) chunk out of that hill/mountainside. It's not just made of soft tailings. There's a lot of rock in there.
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