Oroville Spillway Collapse

[mytimetoshine]

Only in California....

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

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[Hoser John]

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

 

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[russau]

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

 

[diverrick]

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]

"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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[QNCrazy]

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]

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]

Read this and had to share.

http://bit.ly/2kJRGUg

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[Mad Machinist]

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]

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.

 

[Hard Prospector]

Good luck with this mess

 

[Hard Prospector]

Good luck with this mess

 

[winners58]

when asked about repairing the older dams Governor Brown said we'll have to fill that gaping hole somewhere down the road.

 

[Oakview2]