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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 floods of 1987 and 1997. I guess it missed 2007 and waited until 2017. I was living and working in Folsom the time the gate on Folsom Dam broke. A few co-workers and myself went down to Nimbus Dam downstream to see all the gates opened up. It was barely able to keep up with all the uncontrolled release from Folsom Dam. As for the Rancho Seco nuke plant, biggest waste of money for SMUD. Now it's been converted to a co-gen plant. When I lived in El Dorado Hills, I'd wake up every morning and look out my bedroom window to see the 2 cooling towers of in the distance. I also remember back in the late 1970's feeling a few earthquakes that occurred near Lake Oroville. There was a lot of concern the weight from all the stored water triggered the quakes. I wouldn't be surprised if it happens again soon. If it does, that earthen dam could completely fail. Then it will be DOOM ON... 
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