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

Actually, that emergency spillway was never up to snuff from the day it was "completed" it was incomplete in that it lacked a smooth slope back to the river that would allow water to sheet and minimize erosion. It doesn't have to be concrete but it sure can't have brush and trees growing on it and a road meandering through the contours.

If they can get enough water out of the lake before the rains come and more snowmelt goes into the lake, there may be a chance at saving it. The Earthen part that is under the spillway and the emergency spillway, that is in risk of breaking apart.

Total coin toss. It's in the weathers hands. If it rains hard, surfs up enjoy a 500 year wave.

This "earthen dam" does have a coffer dam inside it. Yep, it's concrete along with another concrete section straight down from the top.

4 inches per hour = 1 foot every 3 hours = 8 feet per day at current volume.

No way will they get it down 50' before the next lot of rain if thats the rate.

If it is, why had they only bolstered it below and exactly where the red is? They had done absolutely nothing to control it anywhere around the parking lot.

Our main answer is

Expanded Evacuations areas:
Biggs, Gridley, Live Oak, Linda, Marysville, Nicolaus, Oroville, Palermo, Plumas Lake, Thermalito, Wyandotte in Butte, Sutter and Yuba counties.
Today, they moved at least one evacuation center to an even higher area.

California National Guard officially on call, entire force
Swift Water Rescue Task forces brought in
Military Police activated
FEMA Coordination Center activated

They already know. When in the history of disasters have you ever seen this large a mobilization of help before it even happened?

From what I've seen is they have lost the entire spillway ramp with erosion eating its way up the slope. if they stop the flow then the E spillway will top again and erode out the wall.

Soon they won't be able to manage flow at all.

Was it foretold with the folded currency conspiracy just like 9/11?

Check this spillway out!

[link to www.jonathankleck.com]

Lisa, I was just thinking about this myself. I was wondering, is California known to deploy so many assets out of an abundance of caution like this? Especially since just a couple days ago the line was "everything is fine." I'm having a hard time coming up with a similar example anywhere recently.

Someone on another board posted an article that quoted a Navy captain saying "We know the dam is failing". Looking for it..

"PULL IT" - "Lucky" Larry Silverstein WTC building #7 (the third building fell at free fall speed) but not hit with CGI plane

What i want to know is this is that concrete actually truly impermeable on that cofferdam because seriously when that spillway opened and blew that hole open it kind of looks like mother nature really wants to win ..

When that info was initally posted several pages back, there was no link provided with it. We don't know if that info is true or not? Has anyone seen the Nat Guard in any of the communities which are evacd or any FEMA trucks rolling around anywhere?

She and Father Nature will destroy this dam!

Waterfalls are really majestic and aw inspiring

Earthquake for that region will finish it.
That area on EQ watch for the next 72 hours.



Last Edited by EJD on 02/14/2017 04:52 AM

I remember hearing it during one of the press conferences but just went look it up for some links. Seems the only one not deployed or potentially deployed are the Swift Water Rescue Task forces, which were on their way to Oroville from L.A, but called back because the water was no longer going over the emergency spillway.

So far I haven't seen any FEMA vehicles on the broadcasts, but I spent a good deal of the time grabbing screen shots of the park cam this afternoon. Sounds like Nat Guard is on standby for now.

Here's a few links I found:

All 23,000 California National Guard Soldiers Ordered to Be on Alert for Oroville Dam Emergency
[link to ktla.com]

Southland rescue teams cancelled before leaving to help with Oroville dam emergency
[link to mynewsla.com]

Oroville: Governor Issues Emergency Order; Pentagon Preps Military
[link to www.breitbart.com]
<snip> The orders requires state agencies to “enter into contracts to arrange for the procurement of materials, goods, and services necessary to quickly remove dangerous debris, repair damaged resources, and restore and protect the impacted watershed.” It also invokes California Military and Veterans Code sections 146 and 147, and calls on the California National Guard to mobilize “to support disaster response and relief efforts with all relevant state agencies.”

FEMA activates Oakland center in response to Oroville emergency
[link to www.ktvu.com]

Tks for those links. So I guess due to the evac order, that perhaps it would automatically trigger these other services to be put on stand by?

Ugg it won't let me post. I have some very interesting information

Yea, when Gov. Brown signed the Executive Order, all those things were put in motion. Did you see the Cal OES live stream right after the announcement? They streamed it for 7 hours. It was one of the things that struck me as peculiar. Like they were proving something. I don't know exactly what I mean, was just weird to see them stream it right after the Executive Order was signed but before a full catastrophic failure of the dam. [link to www.youtube.com (secure)]

hmmm spell it out and don't put the .com? Curious now

Any luck finding it?

Water doesn't massacre people.

This sounds like that Evan Almighty film. [link to www.youtube.com (secure)]

[link to www.youtube.com (secure)]

This 1 minute clip shows the damage to the 2nd emergency spillway. Very close to lip.

Nice vid! @ 0:56 if you pause it, there is a pretty good shot of how close the main spillway has eroded to that electrical line. Looks even closer now than the one in the comparison pics another poster put together yesterday. Glad they showed close ups of the emergency spillway, too.

Anyone know what image sites are allowed???

I use this one:
www.imgur.com