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REPORT COPYRIGHT VIOLATION IN REPLY
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Message Subject
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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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There is an emergency spillway, a concrete apron designed to accommodate uncontrolled overflow. How effective? It has never been tested.
Quoting: Crunch62 I see so the spillway that OP is talking about is a regular release spillway, and then at some higher elevation is another (untested) emergency spillway? What can it release? 200,000 cfs? I suspect it can release whatever the volume is flowing over it. It is basically the overflow channel for the lake. No control or management possible. I suppose it exists to reduce erosion damage of the dam by diverting emergency flows to the side and away from the dam structure.
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