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

701.99.....FLATLINED!

I thinks DWR 'water year' start October.

So dry last year! My skin crinkle like mummy.

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This show better October:

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Ouch.....

705.94....NEW DATA IN 5 MONS OR LESS! UH

UP 4 FEET IN A WEEK-ISH.

710.18

AGAIN..UP FOUR PLUS FEET IN 8 DAYS! UH.

710.45

FLATLINED AGAIN...VERY WEIRD...THEY'RE FUCKIN WIFF D-UH NUMBUHZZZZZ...UH.

SAME DATA...

38% FULL

55% OF HISTORICAL AVERAGE..UH.

33 AN 54 OR LESS WAS THE WORST...THIS YEAR..UH.

713.14

GONNA END UP BEING UP 2 AND 2/3RD TO 3/4 FEET IN EXACTLY 8
DAYS!

GOOD DATA PAGE..UH.

38 PERCENT FULL

AND 54 % OF HISTORICAL AVERAGE..ONLY THE TWO SO-CALS ARE LOWER IN THAT REGARD! DHOOMED DAM IZ KNOT SAFE..UH.

Thanks I missed this and did not realize Millie had a new one.

Thanks I missed this and did not realize Millie had a new one.

And another drought season. The dam got lucky again.

The same thing happened in 1997 when areas downstream were evacuated due to the fear the emergency spillway would be overtopped. My boss and his family were trying to leave Yuba City west on Hwy 20, but traffic was at a virtual standstill. He had experienced the Yuba City flood of 1955 as a child and knew what the outcome could be. In 1955, he and his brother were watching out the back window of the car at the water coming down the street as his dad was flooring it trying to get out of Dodge.

Note that in 1997, downstream areas were given evacuation orders nearly 24 hours BEFORE the emergency spillway would have overtopped, not AFTER it had, as in 2017. This is a very important point.

Also note the new 'flood evacuation zones' that were created in 2017. Where I live in the community of Honcut, 12-15 miles south of the dam, we are in zone 10. The fastest and most direct route to high ground from here is due east on Lower Honcut Rd. to La Porte Rd. High ground is less than two miles away via that route.

However, the Butte County evacuation instructions for zone 10 tell us to head NORTH (toward a potentially failing dam and floodwater) to Palermo or Oroville (10+ miles).

Why? Because Butte County knows that Lower Honcut Rd. east of Honcut is regularly flooded and closed in the wet season. The section of road that floods is a few hundred feet long. It is not miles and miles. In the 35 years I have lived here, Butte County has done NOTHING to fix this road, other than installing gates to make it easier for them to close the road.

So, instead of raising the road using some box culverts and fill rock, Butte County wants us to evacuate TOWARD the floodwater. Fuck them. Not doing it.

IT IS STILL UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED....DHOOM. UH.

715.59

DOWN A TAD FROM 715.73..THEY REALLY HAVE DUMPED SOME IN THE LAST FEW HOURS...WTF IZ GOIN' ON MAN?!...C'MON MAN!..UH.

MUCKUH-LUCKUH!

IT IS NOW 39% FULL
54% OF HIST. AVERAGE.

IT WENT UP TWO AND TWO THIRDS FEET IN 11 ISH DAYS...