California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed | |
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User ID: 72595532 United States 02/08/2017 03:19 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed Obama spent the maintenance money importing terrorists? That's our muslim! . "Don't do anything that affects anything. Unless it turns out you were supposed to do it, in which case for the love of God. Don't not do it!" |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 52154903 United States 02/08/2017 08:56 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed The problem is that the Spillway off to the side started to disintegrate yesterday as they were raising the release level of water from the dam so as to make room for the water that would be coming into the Lake over the next 4-5 days from the intense incoming storms. The water release rate was approximately at 60,000 CFS at the time of the disintegration of the Spillway (scheduled to go to 70,000 CFS). That Spillway is currently completely shut down. The damage area is approximately 180' wide by about 230' long per the news conference. Per other reports the erosion UNDER the spillway has in places gone to 30' deep. Currently the ONLY water being released is the water going through the generator turbines (only 1 of 2 penstocks were in operation yesterday) and that has only been about 5100 CFS. They are attempting to get the other penstock operational for today (is was closed off for maintenance) and with that operational they believe that they can raise the amount of water going through the generator plant to 15,000 CFS. Per the news conference last night (link is above on this thread) they will finally get to inspect the spillway today once it is light. Until that is done (as of the time of the news conference) they have no repair plan yet devised. They did state that they WOULD release through the damaged Spillway, if needed (ie: to prevent the dam from being overtopped I would assume since that would cause even more erosion into the spillway bed). The "FULL" level for the lake, ie: filled to Full Flood Level (about 50' above desired pool level), is 900'. Wikipedia puts the absolute top at 935', but that would have to be the overtop level of the dam structure itself. 5 AM PST data for Oroville Lake/Dam Water Level: 864.54 Water Flow IN (hour before): 74,679 CFS Water Flow OUT (hour before): 5,069 CFS Water coming into the lake has dropped since yesterday AM when it was close to 130,000 CFS .... but NEW STORMS with heavy rain are headed towards the watershed area. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 62168939 United States 02/08/2017 09:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed The Spillway, not the Damn has suffered major Daage due to unexpected erosion. The flows have currently been halted. That is all the info I have read so far. Quoting: #Geomagnetic_Storm# [link to www.actionnewsnow.com] Jerry brown sucks a dick |
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User ID: 71193523 United States 02/08/2017 12:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed 5-10 inches of rain the next 72 hours [link to www.atmos.washington.edu] Juicy juicy storm.... [link to www.atmos.washington.edu] Perhaps the emergency spillway will be tested for the first time ever..... Good luck! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 69487709 United States 02/08/2017 02:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed It's already raining hard here, but nothing compared to what's in store for tomorrow... Another 'Atmospheric River'... [link to www.intellicast.com] |
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User ID: 7835328 United States 02/08/2017 02:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed [link to www.sacbee.com] Inspection photos. Open it up and rip it up. They can rebuild this summer. DEDEDEDE |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 73740180 United States 02/08/2017 03:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed Here in Red Bluff the river has stayed steady over night. I know the Geo locater says I'm in Canada, but I'm in Red Bluff near I-5. We watched it over night and it seems stable. Stay safe OP and all of you south of me. |
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User ID: 7835328 United States 02/08/2017 03:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed I have worked on several Hydro Power projects. The operators hate to spill water for this reason. It tears up the spillway. Would using the damaged spillway risk eroding the entire structure? I'm not an expert on this subject but take a look at picture #8. The damage appears to be close to the end of the spillway. If the water level continues to rise, they will have to control the spill. Shutdown and inspect. They will repeat this process until the situation is stabilized or failure is anticipated. DEDEDEDE |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 37446976 United States 02/08/2017 03:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed The Spillway, not the Damn has suffered major Daage due to unexpected erosion. The flows have currently been halted. That is all the info I have read so far. Quoting: #Geomagnetic_Storm# [link to www.actionnewsnow.com] Jerry brown sucks a dick He has been sucking on this one for quite awhile... |
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User ID: 5832163 United States 02/08/2017 03:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed Yup, they're fucked. I'm a proud Texan & American, posting from Central Texas & have no clue why my flag shows friggin Canada(no offense to my Canadian friends). "Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." Diderot "Immigration without assimilation is invasion!" - Anonymous Coward Gird your lions, shave your Family & panic sex the 'maters! "When your so-called religion is purely a political theory of conquest, and deception is one of it's core principles then it strikes me as perfectly sane and reasonable to assume literally everyone who is of such a "religion" to be exactly the same POS who deserves to be treated as the enemy non-stop." Darkwolf007 |