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I sent your twitter images to the Cahills to ask for any comment and am hoping to hear back. They were so nice at answering questions back during the dam crisis. I don't know if the addy is still current or if government goons got to them they way they got to Weiryone, alas. But I will let you know if I hear.

I did find this Cahill interview at PeakProsperity back in 2017. The thing is, I assume nothing at all has been done on this so it is still 100% relevant, and your two twitter images should be regarded as very alarming.

I think it was Bea who said you can't know what exactly is going on without piezometers measuring the flow of groundwater, and the Oroville ones all over that wet area are non functional. Were they ever replaced? The only way to understand that wet area is piezometers....so do we have new ones? I would think it would have been talked about if we did. Maybe they actually do work fine and DWR is lying to say they don't function now, to avoid dealing with it? Who knows.

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There are additional issues involving the unwanted moving of water through the dam — the so-called "green spots". These are areas where water is migrating through the dam, probably through the indigenous soils adjacent to it. I've walked on these [at Oroville] and you can stick your foot down, and like your backyard after a torrential rain, water actually comes up into the footprint after you remove your foot. This is not a good situation. I believe there is a lot of movement of water through that dam, including at the structure itself that houses the gates that control the flow down the principal spillway.

There's nothing wrong with embankment dams in general, they're wonderful dams. But they rely on the mass of the earthen embankment itself to offset the forces that try to slide or rotate it into failure. When we see water migrating through a dam, it can potentially cause failure of the dam because it offsets the mass all that earth. Plus, there's a lot of river rock and sand in this embankment. River rock, as we all know, is round. Anyone can understand how a pile of round rocks, if the fines have been washed out from between them by water and the rocks then vibrated, for instance, by seismic activity, weakens the system. These concerns are very, very serious. I believe that this situation is occurring in multiple places across the Oroville dam — and yet this is simply not being discussed.