Lake Oroville Dam Is Failing -Main Spillway to open soon pg. 79

Use an Oil Driller to drill a deep hole so the water pours down deep into the center of the earth.

Main spillway is running at 100k..

The Judgement of God.

It's over.

^ you obviously have no construction skills... Before you build anything, you have to bring the materials to the site.

Yes, you have to have enough time to build a plant to make concrete. I hope you get that concept. They are not going to truck in fast dry cement from 100 miles away..
It doesn't work like that

I think they should trade Demarcus Cousins.

They could easily use the same ionic satellite weapon that was used to take down the trade centers... but they're not going to because that would not play into the false flag that is getting ready to be procured by the radically unhinged lefty loony toonz.

You can patch/ fill it with material and concrete enough that the water just flows right over the patch for a couple months...

Have you ever worked with concrete?

Even when it's dry for a day, a massive amount of running water will crumble it like nothing.

They don't have a few days to let it dry.

That's good news. The water levels rise much faster than they drop, however. And with every gallon coming out of the main spillway it is cutting a path to the base of the dam.

As I have described in my previous comments, you must have enough material to fill in a hole that no one knows the exact bottom.
You must have enough material to accomplish this job.
I guarantee there is 20 trucks hauling material to this site and they are prepping a batch plant to make concrete on site. Lots of it.
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IMO, they will run the main spillway as high as needed to stop the water from breaching the emergency spillway.

The main spillway seems to have stabilized, the upper concrete water ramp seems to be holding fine and there is only bedrock left at the bottom.

IMO they should just reinforce the upper so it will not erode and whatever they can do to secure the "new" spillway bottom. I think so long as that hill between the spillway and the dam is stable it should be fine assuming they don't have to use the emergency.

I don't see any concrete getting poured before the next rain. The people are just winging it hoping it doesn't all fall apart

I dont like that you have the same thought I had :(

Xx

Dried and cured are two different things. A lot of ppl won't understand that.

sure does stalker creepy guy.

What do you think about Sacramento?

To be safe I would have a full gas tank. I would start loading important items in my car (papers, bank accounts, insurance policies, gold, cash, guns, etc).

I would also be loading up food, water, blankets, cloths, etc.

If you hear "evac" the leave NOW!

If nothing happens, pull your crap back into the house.

Better safe than sorry!

^^ You obviously have no concrete construction experience. You can add calcium carbonate to the mix, and it flashes and cures solid in 20 minutes...

I'm assuming they will mix it for an hour or two cure time, so it flows before hardening... but this is how you work on construction in the winter, you make the concrete set up before it freezes.

You know, all the blue state westies WANT to get rid of their dams and put in Chinese solar farms. Seriously, Washington is leading the way. I guess they don't understand the power grid, an on-demand system, so solar and wind don't cut it. They only see the dollar signs of making the deal.

Last Edited by smeddly on 02/14/2017 12:03 AM

I would be looking to blow up another side of the dam and have the water run off somewhere less populated.

Ground is already saturated 1 mile downstream and flooding is occuring in evacuation zone simply from run off + lake oroville current outflow... in short the ground cannot absorb anymore. Not saying a 30' wall of water is coming but it is probable serious flooding is just around the corner. What you said is dumb and i award you no points

How are they going to stop the leaching through the EO dam?

Last Edited by ~FW~ on 02/14/2017 12:05 AM

That main spillway is drilling a hole let alone back cutting towards the dam , who knows how deep its cut, they could be compromising the bottom with that immense pressure they could spring a leak from underneath, its only 200 ft away? JMHO

I agree...

Last Edited by ~FW~ on 02/14/2017 12:06 AM

They pour concrete in the rain everyday.

It's called a winter mix. Look it up.


* Construction knowledge required to throw out opinions, please!
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I own a house there. It's safe, or you'd see my name on the pinned threads...

I'm 50/50 on this situation.

They can no longer use the emergency spillway, because it is on the verge of collapsing, so they need to use the main spillway exclusively.

Unless they get extremely lucky with the weather, or the main spillway somehow remains intact, that entire hillside is going to collapse and it will be the worst flood in US history.

Read that if it fails, most of the levee breaches would
likely be further north on the Feather River, before it
feeds into the Sacramento River north of Sac.

A lot depends on the rain situation Wednesday through
the weekend.

Please, explain to me like I'm 5, how completely saturated soil absorbs more water? And....go.

That is good news.