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

It should.

There are interesting articles out there about the Mosul dam in Iraq. Never should have been built but Saddam insisted. It is build on permeable easily eroded rock (limestone or sandstones, I forget) and they walk it every day, inside and out, and grout the ever appearing leaks constantly. There is state of the art grouting equipment these days....its like a mouth full of rotting teeth getting fillings all the time, you just have to stay on top of it.

Scott Cahill said they could fix the Oroville leaks-probably- with a six month intensive grouting program. That does not fix the gates...he wanted to see a whole new gate structure built where the new spillway is...but at least it would fix the leaky hillside and the leaky dam. I don't know if they could try to prop up the sagging gate structure or not, or what to do about the broken anchor tendons. Doing nothing is not the answer though.

CA has done nothing. It is not ignorance about dams. DWR knows all this. It is deliberate.

The only conclusion is that they want the dam to fail. The wilderness agenda? Destruction of the food supply? Just plain old sociopathy? Does it matter? They want Oroville dam to fail. All the talk about hydropower clean energy and they won't fix the dam.

What's the forecast Crunch, you heard anything about the la Nina el Nino potentials? A dry winter or a string of pineapple expresses? Hope you get a dry one and the collapse of central valley holds off a little longer.

Happy New Year Orotards : )

53% FULL AND 73% OF HISTORICAL AVERAGE!

695.80 AND THEY HAVE SHUT THE OUTFLOWS DOWN TO '2'!...THEY MAY B TRYING TO DRAW A LINE HERE!...UH

..STILL GONNA GO DOWN DUE TO EVAP. AND LEAKS...KNOWN AND UN-KNOWN!..UH

To put the winds in perspective, wind gusts will frequently blow like that of a Category 1 hurricane in many locations. A Category 1 hurricane has winds of 74-95 mph.

IT'S AT 895.41

IT WAS AS LOW AS 894.97-ISH

SO, IT MAY HAVE BOTTOMED OUT...WITH THE NEW MOISTURE AND MELTS UH-COMIN..UH.

34% FULL

54% OF HISTORICAL AVERAGE

LOWEST WAS 694.96..AND THEY WERE DOIN A LOT OF THE NEG. INFLOW NUMBUHS...

THAT HAD TO BE THE EXACT TIME THAT THE DAMMED DAM WAS 33%
FULL..EXACTLY ONE-TURD, JOEY!...UH..

Cali oro dam cooks the books changes data as they please. That hunk of junk is doomed.

This appeared on the earthquake thread and I just wanted to drop it in here.



Probably not new news for you Crunch thou I thought it interesting enough for anyone that hasn't been following this thread.

This appeared on the earthquake thread and I just wanted to drop it in here.



Probably not new news for you Crunch thou I thought it interesting enough for anyone that hasn't been following this thread.

Oh my GODS!

Advices: In case of squawks Crunchie, run for the butt.

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Daily water data for Oroville Dam including reservoir height and storage:

[link to cdec.water.ca.gov (secure)]

thanks I used to watch this... why does it show RAIN in amounts of 5.84 to 9.6 all of January? does not compute. thats a lot of rain.

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