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

I think the green spot will blow out someday, but the current issue is the spillway gates.

They rebuilt the whole spillway, but the gates are still fucked up. The bottom of the intake to the gates is at 813', but they won't try to use it until 830-840'.

What happens if the gates jam or tweak when they try to open them?

Thanks for the input!

Is the level any where near 830 right now?

CAP'N DO YOU SUPPOSE IT WILL BLOW OUT AT THE GREEN ACRE ON THE FACE OF THAT DAMNED DAM?

OR DO YOU SUPPOSE THE GATES WILL FAIL?

Thanks for the input!

Is the level any where near 830 right now?

No, it is at 808' and rising.

My neighbor works for Kiewet, the contractor. He told me the spillway was rebuilt to 3x the design capacity and should be fine. I asked him about the gates, and he just turned his head.

Good on ya, man!

That head turn tells us all we need to know, doesn't it?

I imagine if the gates get blown out, then it would be game over...correct?

MY BUDDY CAP'N Of The CAPS will be all over this...this meaning the SOB'S took care of the spillway, but FAILED AT THE GATES!

What good is a 3X design improvement if the the gates are pfukt?

If Oroville blows, I imagine it wouldn't be a stretch of the imagination to believe a series of catastrophic dam failures will be realized from Sacramento all the way through south of Shakeytown?

If Oroville blows, I imagine it wouldn't be a stretch of the imagination to believe a series of catastrophic dam failures will be realized from Sacramento all the way through south of Shakeytown?

This Littlepixie is ready for the Oroville "train", lets hope this baby stays on track and doesn't derail.

Thank you to all who are reporting on this thread, hang on to your panties we could be in for a long rough wet ride.

Oroville Dam/Lake data for last week as of 8 AM times (ending 8 am March 3, 2019)
[link to cdec.water.ca.gov]

Water Level has increased by 29.95' over the last week
Water Stored has increased by 321,645 Acre Feet over the last week

3/3/19 @ 8 am local time - 807.24 .... IN 21,569/cfs .. OUT .. 6,777/cfs (stored 2,274,498)
3/2/19 @ 8 am local time - 804.41 .... IN 23,499/cfs .. OUT .. 6,778/cfs
3/1/19 @ 8 am local time - 801.14 .... IN 26,619/cfs .. OUT .. 2,576/cfs
2/28/19 @ 8 am local time - 796.47 ... IN 32,371/cfs .. OUT .. 1,428/cfs
2/27/19 @ 8 am local time - 790.13 ... IN 41,476/cfs .. OUT .. unreported (1,450 estimated)
2/26/19 @ 8 am local time - 783.03 ... IN 38.538/cfs .. OUT .. unreported (1.450 estimated)
2/25/19 @ 8 am local time - 779.25 ... IN 9.077/cfs .. OUT .. 1,030/cfs
2/24/19 @ 8 am local time - 777.95 ... IN 7,744/cfs .. OUT .. 1,195/cfs (stored 1,952,853 AF)

The water would head down through Sac and out the delta to the SF Bay.

LA wouldn't be affected, as the water has to be pumped up over the grapevine to get there.

The water would head down through Sac and out the delta to the SF Bay.

LA wouldn't be affected, as the water has to be pumped up over the grapevine to get there.

Luckily this next Atmospheric River will mostly affect Central/Southern California.

..CALL IT A PINEAPPLE EXPRESS..JUST TO PISS-OFF THE P.C.

FUCKS!

I do miss George Fishbeck the weather guy.

On that latest blancolirio vid the bridge road over the spillway channelwas still intact with the water half up its bank. How did/will they clear all that debris? That was 19 Feb I think.

Has the road bridge been cleared? Surely by now? If it has been cleared surely they can not have dredged the channel clear with all that water flopping over the road debris.

Will all that loose gravel/sand etc cause the gates/ or help scour the channel creating problems?

Did they leave clearing the spillway channel TOO LATE? Hmmmmm