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

CA will go tits up and take the whole US economy with it.

Like the last close call in Hawaii it will look like an act of God.

You are right as rain!

They need this dam to blow in order to blame it for the most severe economic Depression this nation has ever seen.

Call me crazy...but if you've been following this mess as closely as I have, you will know that they've been setting this dam up to fail.

Do you think I'm crazy?

I'm sure they put extra large drains under it this time.

But what if these larger drains just let more water flow out of the hillside and under the spillway?

If you remember correctly, they opened up the spillway a couple of weeks ago. They had to shut it down right away because the slabs were lifting and buckling. The pressure from underneath the slabs were lifting the slabs.

so what is gonna happen if it busts wide open? how many people will it affect? i live near a dam in tn, its the old hickory dam, it will flood nashville it it ever fails cause it releases its water to the cumberland river.

i think juan reads this thread

Good video. It is really a shame in how little people understand about water management in the western USA.

Too bad the vid ends on a sour note. He implies that disinformation is destroying the nation. Liberals have the solution to that problem, but of course they would destroy the nation with their demented view of what is really truth. Unfretted freedom of speech is still the best route in maintaining the availability of truth.

I think this is the guy bothering him.

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Whack a doodle news......LOL.

oroblanko miss spoke, his sugar coating opinion that a lot of the snow pack has already melted and it will continue over time, snow report the other day said only 5% of the snow has melted so far. Playing down the situation helps no one. The snow pack remains at 150-165 percent of normal.

If it goes, the demons in SF and LA and Sac will be in disarray all their sacrifices for naught.

Satan's networks will be down.

And there will be less fruit.

Water going down the main spillway was just now turned muddy.

He didn't address why they shut the spillway down without ever going up to 60,000 cfs like they said they would.

What makes you think that?

AND SO IT BEGINS...

Where does it look like it's muddy ?
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If Oroville breaks Sacramento isn't going to exist anymore.

I had another dream about the dam last night it was close to being full and ready to overtop and a couple of workers there were thinking we better get the hell out of here before it goes.

Easter morning 1 am work on the dam


start at 9:11

BUMPING FOR UH

Why did they stop posting data of lake Almanor upstream since April 10?

872.05....NEW NUMBERS IN 20 MINS.

SNEAKY SNEAKY HOPE FULL Y NO PUT IN SEAFOR...SEEFOUR...I FOR C C FO' HOMMIE...

This Littlepixie thinks that the "working at midnight" is 100% suspect because it would make so much more sense to do it in daylight when they can actually see to fix it before it goes "tits up"

his obsession with whack a doodles

IF they let the lake go above 875-880 then you can just about take it to the bank that something is seriously wrong with the "NEW" spillway. (remember their goal was 848 for the end of March)

The snow melt run off going into the lake has been very consistent now for almost two weeks at about 17,000-18,000 cf/s while releases have been limited to the power plant and have been running 9,000 cf/s with some fluctuations during that same time frame.

While the calendar says that the lake should peak in the next week, two weeks max based upon history, the heavy snow pack may draw that time frame out to a somewhat later date (one to two weeks imo). Any late in the season large scale rain event would compound their problems.

Unfortunately for the DWR at the current "fill" rate the lake is going to rise PAST that 875 level before the peak is here, even withOUT any rain event ... which could mean trouble for them if the spillway issues are even half as bad as some are saying. (at the current fill rate the lake is rising about 1.4 feet per day - which means the lake will be 875 about the end of the day on Tuesday and it will hit about 880 sometime overnight next Friday night, early April 27ish)

The higher the lake ... the MORE HYDRAULIC PRESSURE is placed upon the Dam, the dike, the gate structure and for forcing water through the "rotten" rock base of the gate/dike area.

Waiting game for me ... and am sure for DWR too. I strongly believe that they have their fingers crossed that everything can hold together withOUT them having to reopen the gates and use the spillway again. No longer sure that is possible as I look at the current lake fill rate.

872.63..new numbers in 20-5 mins.

HIGH OF 91 NOW FOR TUESDAY....