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

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Those moran Cali Gov retards will hide or change anything that reflects badly on them. If things look dangerous all their resources will be directed at saving the fish like last time.

What the fudge has happened to the Oroville Dam water level data. …

Help!!!

Word of the street is that Oroville Dam is about to fail.

I just got a call from a guy in the Atlanta area. He said he saw thousands and thousands of what appeared to be body bags stacked up near the Johnson train tracks just outside of Porterville.
On each body bag was the word 'Oroville'.
WTF?

can anybody near there get pics?

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Has some cracks in it.

Mud Creek might flood. Ya know, the MUD ARK?

Wouldn't they say "sacramento"?

It is possible I guess, but I thought this was still holding up?

IT'S NOT ABOUT THE SPILLWAY.. SEE MY POST ABOVE.

Oroville reading at 11%

[link to cdec.water.ca.gov]

[link to cdec.water.ca.gov]

Jack in VA has been showing what appears to be water underneath the new spillway. That rock in that area is not good bedrock.

If you read about the St Francis Dam failure in 1928, it was a big cement dam, but they didn't know about the faults in the rock to the sides. There had been ancient landslides and the rock was not solid as it appeared. First time they filled it, water began to move through the rock on the sides, the abutments where the cement was hooked in, and it created hydraulic uplift. That is, in more simple terms, water pressure lifting up whatever is on top, in this case rock and cement. Hundreds of people drowned when the dam failed, and it failed very quickly, like in a few hours.

People can't picture the power of water. You can't imagine water forcing up a cement dam or the rock above. But it can. Hydraulic uplift was not well understood 90 years ago but it is now, and it is scary.


Cahill and Robert Bea, the disaster guy from Berkley, both think water is moving through rocks under the gates, which is rock to the side of the dam itself. The spillway is off to the side. Can hydraulic uplift make the new spillway, which is well bolted into the rock, go up? Maybe not. But if it is starting to move underneath and fissures widen, it could bring down the lake to whatever depth it erodes. I remain very concerned. I wish they would lower the water as much as possible and reduce water pressure on any seepage in the rocks....or into that green spot.

This is getting kind of spooky.
Nobody knows what the level of Oroville Reservoir is anymore.
I smell something rotten.
Dam failure imminent?

Body bags being trucked into Sacramento?

and water under the new spillway says either they screwed up.. or that whole LEFT embankment is fucked... Good post .. thankyou.

PEOPLE!!!
THIS IS VERY VERY BAD!!!
SOMETHING SERIOUS IS GOING ON AT OROVILLE.

PIN THIS PINE TREE

Wow!!!! I've never seen so many blackbirds flying around at the top of the spillway? Why so many birds all of a sudden?

Count on it.

Within several weeks, the dam will be reduced to a pile of rubble. The Central Valley will be ruined forever.

For some reason they want this dam to fail...Trump needs a distraction?

GLP... you don't understand how serious this situation is...

To me, it's a very veyr bad sign.

Oh yes!

Oh yas yas yas….

[link to cdec.water.ca.gov]


Lost this much water !!
Dam break???

Bump ... whats the deal with the snow pack in the area as of recent? Writing on the wall?

The snow pack all around the reservoir is at about 160% of normal!May is when the snow really starts to melt!!!
Supposed to be an inch of rain on Monday too.
Oroville will be up to 890 feet by next weekend if they do not open spillway.

I do understand.