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

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New video from Marty!!!

Thank you, P&P. Some of the Oroville ones can get up to 33 views and a few link clicks. I feel like Elvis, but I'm trying not to let the fame go to my head.

I suspect the information regarding the failing corroded trunnions is what was blacked out in those Dam Reports.

It seems ridiculous, aS WE ALL KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON.

Smart thinking! Let us know what you find.

Doesn't make sense does it?

In 2017, I really don't think they expected so many people to pick up the little signs pointing to the impending spillway failure, and making it public before they did.

They're unsure, afraid and want to control the narrative themselves.

Here is the link to a document titled "Declaration of Robert G. Bea in Support of Plaintiffs' Opposition to Defendant's Motion to Strike"

Scroll down to Exhibit 2, page 11 and you'll find the info you want on that 14' crack with a 4" shift.

It's the last gate on the right BTW.

The doc contains a lot of other interesting, unredacted info too.

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Everything depends now on whether or not they can reach a place where outflows exceed inflows for a few days before the next atmospheric river...

@ MIDNIGHT IT WAS 858.02


NOW, IT IS AT 858.69 NO OTHER DATA AVAIL. YET. UH,CAPMAN. UH.

Old news already perhaps (2 days ago), but newsworthy!

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A slew of storms has replenished several California reservoirs, a much-needed respite from the extreme drought that, until recently, plagued the West Coast.

Another atmospheric river hit the state on Friday, with a second in less than a week dumping even more precipitation on Tuesday night. Given California's tumultuous weather patterns lately, the storms posed a life-threatening flood risk while sating several depleted reservoirs and returning them to 100 percent capacity.
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Last Edited by Humanitarianlike on 03/16/2023 08:29 AM

NOW, 858.83

858.99 no 'flow' DATA YET. DAT-UH.

Great read, thank you!

They didn't pick up on it because they are government workers that exhibit the same level of dedication to a job well done as those behind the counters at your DMV.

So it moved a tenth of a foot? Shut the fuck up spammer retard

The shut the fuck upping is on you. CAPMAN UH is a great contributor to this thread.

You...not so much.

This thread will run it's course regardless of your unnecessary and useless contributions.

We are a family here. If you don't like it, take a fucking hike.

Bye.

Morning update for UK people.

DATE / TIME
PDT RES ELE
FEET STORAGE
AF OUTFLOW
CFS INFLOW
CFS RIV REL
CFS RAIN
INCHES BAT VOL
VOLTS
03/15/2023 20:00 857.35 2,908,159 21,032 54,109 19,834 31.43 13.4
03/15/2023 21:00 857.53 2,910,635 21,081 52,023 19,913 31.43 13.4
03/15/2023 22:00 857.67 2,912,560 21,118 47,899 20,005 31.43 13.4
03/15/2023 23:00 857.85 2,915,038 21,164 47,069 19,893 31.43 13.4
03/16/2023 00:00 858.02 2,917,380 21,210 49,331 19,945 31.43 13.4
03/16/2023 01:00 858.20 2,919,860 21,258 50,160 19,939 31.43 13.4
03/16/2023 02:00 858.36 2,922,066 21,302 49,514 19,906 31.43 13.4
03/16/2023 03:00 858.54 2,924,550 21,353 50,377 20,006 31.43 13.4
03/16/2023 04:00 858.69 2,926,621 21,396 50,804 19,943 31.43 13.4
03/16/2023 05:00 858.83 2,928,555 21,434 46,683 19,993 31.43 13.4
03/16/2023 06:00 858.99 2,930,765 21,474 45,790 19,991 31.43 13.4
03/16/2023 07:00 859.11 2,932,424 21,506 43,909 19,962 31.43 13.4

Yep.

I have to make a confession.

Dealing with this shit regarding the dam for nearly 40 years is taking it's toll.

Watching the DWR incompetence year after year is wearing me down.

I have PTSD from 1986 and 1997. I have stories to tell from those years if anyone is interested in hearing them.

That was funny, because you are a fucking pussy.

And no Schwab for alignment. I have a tape measure and a level.

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You want a reason...bring it...there is your reason.

I am getting too old to fuck around with assholes like you.

Bring it.

Or STFU.

AC 860......many many thanks.

It says that big crack is in gate 8 which must be one of the end ones they didn't open at first and I assume is still shut.

I wonder what happened with the lawsuit.

So many lies, so much cover up of negligence.

Need to go watch Marty now. Thanks again.

You already said they screwed up your alignment. So either you are lying about doing your own or lying about them screwing it up.

Loudmouth know-it-all knows it all and is never wrong.

Oh please write them out for the thread. It's part of the human side of the whole story.

I never said they screwed up my alignment. I said they fucked up my rides. Reading comprehension. Learn it.

I went there for a set of tires. They were H-rated 'extra-load'. On a small car. The max pressure on the tires was 44 PSI.

The car called for 28 PSI front, 26 PSI rear.

What did the Schwab guys fill them to...44 PSI all around. I drove home, nearly losing my teeth and then reduced the pressure to what is should have been.

Schwab guys are fucking idiots.

Bring it bring it bring it bring it.

OR STFU.

Somebody who cares. Thank you.

I'll start with 1986. Give me a minute.

Added 64,923 acre-feet over the last 24 hours, 565,501 acre-feet of storage remain. Current outflow is 21,544 cfs, up 5,603 cfs from 15,941 cfs yesterday at 8 AM.

Does anyone know if the higher release rate is due to them opening the gates more or if that is due exclusively to the 4.73' increase in water level over that 24 hour period?

Can't link from this device. Watched Marty and Juan came up in my feed. Blancolirio youtube channel.

Juan has a March 11 update of the new spillway. It does open with 4 gates, but then he has footage of all 8 gates open. I think it's current. Anyway, here's hoping they hold up.

My wife (fiancee then) and I grew up in So Cal. Simi Valley. It was a nice place to grow up then, but expensive to live. We looked at Nor Cal due to the low rent and low property prices.

We came up to Honcut in November of 1985. I had just turned 23. With the nonstop rain day after day, I wondered WTF had I done moving here. I did not realise it was not a normal year.

Coming into February of 1986, I received a call notifying me that one of my friends from So Cal had passed away. Worse was the fact he had taken his own life. I was asked to be a pallbearer at his funeral.

The rain was bad and the roads were flooding badly. My wife (fiancee) and I spent the night at her cousin's house down in Yuba City. My flight to So Cal was scheduled for early the next morning.

We drove down to the Sacramento airport early that morning. I think my flight was scheduled for 6:30 AM.

Debi was then planning to head to work. She was a stylist in the JC Penney hair salon in the Peach Tree Mall in Linda-Marysville.

I flew down to Burbank airport. Somebody picked me up (I don't remember who).

Later that afternoon, I was at my parents' house watching the TV news. Suddenly, there was a breaking news report of a levee breach in Nor Cal.

I watched a helicopter shot of the Peach Tree Mall underwater. Where Debi was supposed to be at work.

I freaked.

Nothing I could do, being 500 miles away. No cell phones or internet then. No email, no text. Just old-school land lines. I called home, I called relatives, I called everyone I knew.

Nobody had seen her. I was losing my shit. I just kept watching that video of the mall underwater. I thought she was gone.

I completely lost it. My dad restrained me, as I was trying to RUN back to Nor Cal.

Finally, Debi called. She had decided to NOT go to work that day, due to the road conditions. She had spent most of the day just trying to get home. Finally made it by taking numerous roundabout routes.

A day from Hell for me, thanks to CA DWR failure.

I will never forget it. Damn them.