Oroville Spillway Collapse

mytimetoshine · Feb 9, 2017

Only in California....

https://www.google.com/amp/fox40.co...mptied-as-oroville-dam-spillway-crumbles/amp/

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Hoser John · Feb 14, 2017

Home for sale CHEAP..... :tongue3:

lousy lazy arse bureauratz had been warned 4 times by their own studies but.......that'd mean they'd have to WORK!!! o well maybe later. Hold on to your hat as this has just begun with many more storms and THEN 176% of normal snow equals ungodly runoff. The saga continues.....big bummer for many...John

russau · Feb 14, 2017

ALL who voted AGAINST it ought to be impeached because they're lack of concern for the publics safety was ignored!

diverrick · Feb 14, 2017

I want to go detect those washes they created. Bet there is gold there in the bedrock cracks. But as was said earlier, big bother is not going to let anyone near that area for a very long time.

Tuolumne · Feb 14, 2017

"A Never-Happened-Before Event": As Oroville Dam Drains, A Problem Remains

Zerohedge picked up the saga

what about property sales going down, thats going to hurt big time in that area-

LA water companies footing the bill for this? one way or another it will get passed to us........

Laz7777 · Feb 14, 2017

got a friend in Oroville I met out on the south fork, his wife owns a restaurant in the downtown area. hopefully they got out.

Mad Machinist · Feb 14, 2017

Hoser John said:
Home for sale CHEAP..... lousy lazy arse bureauratz had been warned 4 times by their own studies but.......that'd mean they'd have to WORK!!! o well maybe later. Hold on to your hat as this has just begun with many more storms and THEN 176% of normal snow equals ungodly runoff. The saga continues.....big bummer for many...John

And earthen spillway to handle 250,000 cfs? This has been a time bomb looking for a time to go off.

Aufisher · Feb 14, 2017

They need to scour off the soil at the base of the bedrock at the emergency spillway . Add tons of steel, concrete and grout forming a sloped ramp. What a joke, failed at 5% rated capacity. The question is why did they let the lake near capacity and who will get the gold left behind? Drought paranoia is the answer to the first question.

mytimetoshine · Feb 14, 2017

exactly this is normal (historically) rain fall. They got greedy by letting a resivour with an allready damaged spillway get to full and then when the main spillway blows apart they stop all flow for like 12 hrs?? I just don't get that. There was nothing to be gained by doing that and that put the lake lever right to the edge.

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Mad Machinist · Feb 14, 2017

If the picture i just seen is real then if you live below this dam, get the hell out and stay out for awhile. It was raw footage from a news chopper that showed water running from UNDERNEATH the concrete weir on the emergency spillway.

CA Gold Hunter · Feb 15, 2017

The water is down 22ft from going over the emergency spillway. They wouldn't have let everyone back if it was running underneath.

H-2 CHARLIE · Feb 15, 2017

Nice over head view , bet there is gold washed out in that flow path .

QNCrazy · Feb 15, 2017

Laz7777 said:
on the sunny side..wonder if the area below the dam will replenish...
worked a spot when I was a fresh greenhorn in 2009 with a couple guys...we were getting decent color about 3/4 mile below Oroville Dam Blvd.

Oh, I'm sure they will close that area off to the public and within months, you'll see some government funded Combiesque dredge operation move in to remove the blown out sediments.

Laz7777 · Feb 15, 2017

QNCrazy said:
Oh, I'm sure they will close that area off to the public and within months, you'll see some government funded Combiesque dredge operation move in to remove the blown out sediments.

I've heard about the klusterf*** there removing the sediment.

the area was part of the park, forget the name of it. we were working parallel to the cement plant on the other side of 70.

mytimetoshine · Feb 15, 2017

Read this and had to share.

http://bit.ly/2kJRGUg

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Mad Machinist · Feb 15, 2017

CA Gold Hunter said:
The water is down 22ft from going over the emergency spillway. They wouldn't have let everyone back if it was running underneath.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/02/12/oroville-dam-spillway-expected-to-collapse/

The picture in question is right at the top. If you scroll down through the comments you see the same picture with the areas in question circled in red. You can click on the picture to blow it up.

Johnnybravo300 · Feb 15, 2017

29 billion spent on housing, food, medical for illegals in california...

Cuts for infrastructure. They couldn't afford to fix it with all the illegal mouths to feed and house.
Good job libs, another fail.