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

Yes wrong.
Outflow is what is released directly from the lake (whatever method used) into the pool below the dam itself.

River Release is the total that is released downstream into the main Feather River from the bays and the remaining thru put which comes from the pool below the lake (that has not been channeled off into the bays.)

This way the actual river release can be adjusted up or down as necessary. A surplus can be retained in the bays to reduce river release or previously retained surplus can be released to increase river release.

Last Edited by mon KeyHanger on 05/15/2019 05:46 PM

LYING SEEM TO WORK FOR THEM.

The fulerton dipshit with the bad haircut has gine mega fucking viral, I’m not sure if it’s us (GLiPtards) or him driving this the most, but we now got national attention on the scurrying cockroaches (CA government workers and politicians)

Cant wait till calpers goes belly up along with everything else the Demonshits touch.

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“Raindrops keep falling on my head
But that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turning red
Crying's not for me
'Cause I'm never gonna stop the rain by complaining
Because I'm free
Nothing's worrying me“

-DWR Theme Song, sing it with me!!

this thread has been shadow banned! you know what that means?

889.50

“Raindrops keep falling on my head
But that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turning red
Crying's not for me
'Cause I'm never gonna stop the rain by complaining
Because I'm free
Nothing's worrying me“

-DWR Theme Song, sing it with me!!
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Spring Storms Concern Residents Living Near Oroville Dam

“The ground’s too corroded up there. You’re just basically putting a band-aid on a big patch,” said Andy Buckley.

Buckley doesn’t believe the dam was fixed, even after the state spent $1.1 billion on repairs to fix the dam after it was damaged by a storm in February 2017. State officials quickly countered, saying it is perfectly fine.

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The piece in Zero Hedge might wake up some people downstream who don't even know there is something going on up there.

The publicity on the Dam this time around has been very very restricted to basically GLP and a couple of small websites this time ... so most are clueless.

Maybe this will get one or more of the Sacramento TV stations up there to cover the situation, which is really what is necessary for informing the general public that there may be a problem (of course we all know that DWR is going to LIE LIE LIE like they did back in 2017 claiming there is NO PROBLEM AT ALL, which is patently false)

One of the local talk radio stations did mention this yesterday, but they just reported that the Sheriff said everything is A-OK, nothing to worry about this year. Other than that there is no coverage on Oroville here in the Sac area.

Deja Vu: Is the Oroville Spillway About To Fail Just Two Years After Near-Disastrous Evacuation?

It may be hard to believe but only two years after a near-disastrous last-minute evacuation, the Oroville Spillway could be on the verge of failure again. A major piece of infrastructure in Northern California, the spillway has not been well-maintained despite continuously increasing taxes for that purpose.

I asked Paul Preston, “How close is the dam to failing?” Preston replied “It could go by this weekend”.. His comments, in part, are based upon the dire weather forecast in which intense rainfall is forecasted between Wednesday May 15 and Sunday, May 19th. This is significant because this could greatly add to the inflow and the outflow data which shows an extreme imbalance. And when we consider that the dam is 12 feet from overtopping, the danger multiplies exponentially. When any structure takes on more water, whether it be a ship or a dam, it is going to fail/sink…

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The shallow Orange county bad haircut dipshit just got a talkin to from the some DOJ thugs...

DWR is in full panic mode.....

lol GLP management just got the word from some gubbamint dipshit to to e down this thread and shadowban...

Ah ... maybe this year the Sheriff plans on warning people further in advance of the potential of an imminent failure than he did in 2017.

Say 1 hour and 5 minutes instead of only an hour!!


Don't Worry ... Be Happy!! . .

“Raindrops keep falling on my head
But that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turning red
Crying's not for me
'Cause I'm never gonna stop the rain by complaining
Because I'm free
Nothing's worrying me“

-DWR Theme Song, sing it with me!!

How you you measure an acre foot of water, friend?

details or link please

Probably under the road they just paved below the ES. To avoid erosion of the lower hill they might funnel water into drains at the top of the boat launch road.

Those drains aren't big enough though, if the ES goes over . . . 1272 CFS at 15 ft/s water speed (very fast)

Agreed, if true, worth looking further into

An acre-foot is a measure of volume. It is essentially a rectangular prism that is 1 acre (43560 square feet) on the top surface, and 1 foot deep. It is equal to 43560 cubic feet, which is about 325851 gallons.

thirded. I'm assuming you mean the hispanic guy?


In case my original post wasn't clear enough, it takes over 150 acre feet of volume change for the lake height sensor to register a change in height. The volume is calculated from the height, since there is NO OTHER WAY to measure it.

How you do MEASURE it? The verb, "to measure".

In order for the lake storage to update every single acre foot, the lake height sensor would need to be accurate to 0.00075 inches.

Have you ever seen the surface of a lake? Do you think, even if you got a sensor that accurate, it would give consistent readings?

Or is there some machine that empties the entire lake into 55 gallon drums every hour (then puts it all back) and uses the number of drums to add up the total volume?

You decide.

Everyone is forgetting to consider that all the rain that falls on the lake is 1 to 1 real time. If an inch falls on the entire lake it will raise the lake by almost an inch(less the angle of slope differential from vertical of the sloped lake shore)

How Weathered Rock Played Into the Spillway Failure 2017-2019

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3pm readings


height: 889.30
AF: 3,371,332

don't seem to be going up very fast

Fact check: KCRA investigates Oroville Dam rumors

. . .

CLAIM: The wet winter and melting snowpack will lead to too much water in the reservoir.

Findings: This claim is false. According Mellon, the water supply is being closely monitored.

“There’s about 200,000 acre-feet of storage remaining in the reservoir, which is a lot of water,” Mellon said.

She said water is being released as necessary.

“Just because we’re not using the spillway doesn’t mean we’re not releasing water from the reservoir,” she said. “Right now, Hyatt Powerplant is releasing about the same amount of water that’s coming from the snowpack.”. . .

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Probably because you're too stupid to understand what is going on...