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

There was stealing water from another dam a few years ago... to underground projects.. on another system of dams that runs down into .. well I got to look at a map.. but a whole series of dams running from Colorado down to the Baja roughly...

I am not sure what the fellow above is refering too.. having not watched all of this.. and NOW GOOD NIGHT...

The Oroville Lake usually tops out between the middle of April and the first of May (if you go back and look at it's historic fluctuations). We are already in Mid April, so at most there is ONLY two more weeks of rise left in the lake if this year's spring is a typical spring.

REMEMBER ... Rain in that part of California is SEASONAL, and they are about to hit the beginning of their DRY SEASON.

Snow Melt is ALREADY OCCURING ... sheesh, it has been sunny and well above freezing in much of the watershed for some time now. Where does anybody get the idea that the snow isn't melting yet?

NO substantial rain has hit the watershed for almost 2 weeks now (and what they have had only totaled 2/10 of an inch), which is further confirmation that the water going into the reservoir IS ALL Snow Melt!!

The dam operators have been holding the inflow/outflow numbers to a fairly steady 8 to 10,000 cf/s net inflow for a number of days now, which is creating a SLOW increase in the lake level. Barring a major rain event, which would also accelerate the snow melt, there is nothing in the cards which would cause a sudden rise in the lake level. (the hourly reports as to the lake level are screwed up at the moment and have been for several days now but the inflow /outflow numbers are in the range that they should be with the lack of rain in the watershed)

Due to the heavier than normal snow pack this year the Snow Melt runoff should continue for some additional time compared to a normal year ... which will also keep the lake level higher longer than in a normal year once it peaks later this month but that doesn't mean that the lake will rise rise rise after it's normal peaking time since they will continue to send down to Southern California and to the Delta at about 10,000 cf/s probably through most of the rest of the spring and summer.

Oroville has problems ... but unless there is either a massive rain event in the next 3 weeks, a failure of part of the gate structure, or a large earthquake, most of the risk has now passed for this year. Next year may be a different story, but for this year most of the risk has now passed.

it means they have drained some water.

it means they have drained some water.

Ye...some 330 feet level overnight. That is over TWO MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND AF Hahahaha

Must have taken it out in buckets cos spillway could only take it down 1 or 2 feet at highest volume they used.

535.87 NOW..WHAT EVER THE FUCK THE NEW NUMBER MEANS...

NO IT DOESN'T COCK FER BRAINS...YOU DONT LOSE 2.5 MILLION ACRE FEET OF WATER BY TURNING OFF A FUCKING SPILLWAY!

from dead tread:
I think they are fudging the cameras also. Even though more water is coming in than out the lake cam started showing lower water level, some shots appear have masked out areas. The top cam during a hard rain showed left view hard rain, center view overcast day, right cam foggy day. When you see them doing emergency fish rescue it is to late maybe.

Hey guys, your doom is canceled, they got the surfboard out and Gavin says we back in a drought so, maybe you loney dam collapse hopefulls can glom onto some other imagined impending tragedy...

CAN WE GET SOME MORE OF THOSE 'SPECIFICS'....DETAILS....IF U CAN...PLEASE

Your so elegant when dealing with stupids. Keep up the good work.

Are the gates closed? Spillway livestream cam is showing water flowing down.

Are the gates closed? Spillway livestream cam is showing water flowing down.

Can anybody find this link? I tried, no success.

At the Oroville dam watch site on youtube, a poster said this:

"Trumpet news put out a good video a couple hours ago. (PandP edit- add 10 hours for the time of comment, from now) Sounds like when they reopened spillway, it started vibrating (conjecture) so they shut it down to prevent failure. etc. "

Can anybody find that video? Much appreciated if you can.

83% full on April 11th, to now showing only at 11% full... doesn't make any since at all.

I will do my best...this is always a favorite topic.. with bad dams... there in one in Tennessee I think it is that may go to at some point... and I forget which city is below that one.. but it will get 20 feet of sudden flood water. Man forgets this is not a finished planet yet and it will rock and roll.