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California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed
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I'm about 15 miles downstream from the dam. CA DWR has been trying to maintain the elevation at around 850 feet (crest elevation is 900') for flood storage.
Even with the previous 50K CFS releases, the lake rose almost 10 feet in the past 24 hours. With the spillway shut down, it will rise even faster. Currently at 858 feet. 42 feet to go.
I'm having flashbacks to 1997, when they thought the dam was going to be overtopped by excessive inflow. It wasn't a fun time.
Quoting: Crunch62 Lived in Sacramento for years. They have some truly stupid people in charge. If I was you I'd take a vacation starting now. According to the official flood maps, we would be OK in the case of a total failure...by about 1 1/2 miles. I'm not sure I trust that estimate. We'd only need to head east about 3 miles to substantially higher ground, but right now, that road is underwater from last night's rain. Bother. Do you remember when they almost lost Folsom dam? the Feds had to come in and fix it So many problems running the nuclear power plant they had to shut it down I remember the Folsom problem. It seems they only fixed it a couple of years ago. My neighbor works for a large contractor that had part of the job.
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