California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed

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CALLIN 858.00 BY MIDNIGHT CALI TIME.

UP 8.21 FEET IN THE LAST 24 HRS.

Actually, this same camera USED to simply show the upper spillway deck and the spillway bridge area. A total of three views as I recall, all of the upper spillway area.

There is another camera, the 'lower spillway camera' that I believe is still in place across the diversion pool from the bottom of the spillway. We aren't allowed to view that one.

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CALLIN 858.00 BY MIDNIGHT CALI TIME.

UP 8.21 FEET IN THE LAST 24 HRS.

and yet…

So you got me thinking... and I started changing the page id numbers on the web link and found a "hidden" cam. There may be more. I'm going to root around.

[link to www.parks.ca.gov (secure)]

Nice!

I don't know where that is, but there are a lot of porta-shitters in that one view.

I found the same cam under a different number. It's called "Poppy Reserve"

[link to www.parks.ca.gov (secure)]

Poppy Reserve.

[link to www.parks.ca.gov (secure)]

Well, crap. Not so hidden. Still, might be something yet to find besides this creepy doll.

[link to www.parks.ca.gov (secure)]

Well, crap. Not so hidden. Still, might be something yet to find besides this creepy doll.

[link to www.parks.ca.gov (secure)]

Wow. That is creepy.

Imagine what those people endured up there all those years ago.

Considering US taxpayers coughed up approx.
$1 billion to clean up the State of California's mess, the least they could have done was to use a few thousand of that and install livecams devoted exclusively to the spillway, gates and the front of the dam itself, that actually work and stay online 24/7

Those are the areas most people are interested in seeing, especially when severe weather hits.

Instead, we are tortured by being forced to sit through 5 minutes of trees, the horizon, a flat lake, and part of a wall just to view a small part at the top of the spillway,

Taxpayers should be able to view what they paid for.

What are they afraid of?

Back in 2017 they had all those cameras you're asking for and everyone here was glued to them. Back then they even left the lights on at night so you could see the water levels both in the reservoir and coming down the spillway.

Very nice presentation.

That was great. Thanks.

I think O spillway is doomed without smoother joints.

A little history lesson.



As a random pleb the best we can hope for is that the dam is never again tested the way it was in 2017. We've gotten over trusting experts to keep us safe.

I think the gates are all open, aren't they?

And no doubt DWR is worried about everything working right, but (just my opinion) doubt if they would hesitate to use the gates based on the known issues. They honest-to-God believe everything is fine and will work as planned.

I would instead put my money on DWR thinking "Let's fill up our piggy-bank as fast as possible and start counting the dough, baby!" Which pisses me off because the supposedly mandatory flood pool reservation is based on historical records of how much flood storage they MIGHT STILL need. Since DWR can't see into the future, it would behoove them to follow well-known, best-case conservative storage management engineering guidelines even at the risk of ending up a few acre-ft short of a full dam in May. And I doubt they'll be short at all with the next round of ARk storms rolling in.

Not sure what kind of dumb-assed game they're playing here, but they could have got a jump on maintaining flood storage four days ago by spilling. Everyone knew what was coming, even GLP. Now they can't release much faster if they wanted to because the Sacramento is flooding. They damn well could have started spilling last Saturday and made room by now without causing any problems downstream.

At the end of yesterday, 3/14, they already exceeded the upper storage limit by 42,000 acre-ft. It will probably be double that today. I'm sure they figure inflows will drop off as the week goes on, and then they'll draw the reservoir back down to the flood reservation limit. We know how that's probably going to work out. It's the ABV TOC column on this data set: [link to cdec.water.ca.gov (secure)]

Trunion anchor stuff:

https://twitter.com/_/status/1636090833643491328

https://twitter.com/_/status/1636091772400021507

Looks pretty bad. Doom is back on the menu boys.