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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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since this is glp, has anyone suggested this damage may have been 'encouraged'? enviro-terrorism? false flag to further delay sessions' confirmation?
i certainly hope this can be mitigated fast. lotta water in that lake.
Quoting: BRYinTX It's probably lack of maintenance. Since the drought they probably haven't used the spillway that frequently, if they have turbines for power generation that most of the release is through the pen stocks feeding the turbines. So when they finally get a big storm (5 year or so) then they have to use the release spillway. But cracks can develop in the spillway slabs, and when water flows over the cracks, a lot of water, it can rip the concrete up. Especially if the concrete was spalling around the joints. Our infrastructure is old, most surface water impoundment structures like this were built in the 60s'-70s. that sounds plausible. but doesn't this dam prevent some fish migration or something? seems like the enviros hated it for that. wouldn't put it past wacko enviros to minimally maintain a dam. ok..i'll get off the conspiracy stuff...you just never know these days.
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