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

715.63 GOIN' BACK UP..UH.

NOW 715.65 AND FLATLINED! UH

715.60

big drop...! UH

#20 ALL TIME FOR NUMBUH OF VIEWS...WOO HOO. UH.

719.48 FILLING UP!

ALMOST 4 FEET IN 5 DAYS...MAS O MENOS

MY BABY....!

16 inches of rain near the end of March. Just about half of the seasonal average.

The lake is 200 feet down, wondering what 'repairs' DWR will be attempting this season.

I am betting 'none'.

722.20 NEW DATA IN 5 TO 10 MINS!

.75 FEET IN ONE WEEK!

And another disappointing winter here. Next comes the Wildfires! :/

723.02

NO DATA FOR 8 AM YET..ANY MIN!

Thank God for a dry winter. Disaster averted. Maybe.

Scott Cahill suggested a workable plan to build a new gate system where the new emergency spillway is. A new, good gate system that is not at risk of breaking while open.

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Scroll in 30 seconds to see the broken gate at Folsom. Remember that Oroville has the same kind of gates. With lots of pretty little and big cracks in them.

Cahill also said that an intense six month grouting program could possibly fix all the leaking through the hill. Such intense grouting programs go on all over the globe, and the equipment is available. That would not fix the gates, but it would prevent a runaway erosion event through the hill and the quick disastrous leakage of the lake.

There is only one conclusion, watching the dry seasons go by with no proper fixing. That conclusion is that they want the dam to fail. Maybe for spite, maybe for "climate change", maybe to rewild Central Valley into a wilderness area. We can only speculate. It isn't money...they have plenty of that to waste.

I've considered that they know a fault line runs through it, and the dam could fail no matter what, but if they were afraid of that you'd think they'd slowly empty the dam and end it. They'd be building new infrastructure to get water from up north.

To quote a saying out there, "Make America a shithole again. Vote Democrat".

the ultimate problem that is destroying the dam is not the gates.. it is the joint between the hill and the dam itself.. There is some huge defect in there during construction and it does leak at times when the dam is full.. I am not talking about the grassy area . I am taking about the seam.. which is as your face the dam ... the one on the left or which is on the same side as the spillway.. they haven't posted pics of that now in several years.. they know... and that whole hillside with the spillway on it is saturated with water which is why the spillway blew out to begin with.. not the gates.

This defect is also why we see that recurrent wet spot on the spillway, just above the 'downhill' every time the reservoir level approaches 800'.

Even the new main spillway will eventually be undermined, as the hill is porous and allows the piping of water through it. It is possible a program of intense grouting under pressure could save the spillway structure, but I have many doubts.

LOOKS LIKE BIDEN IZ GONNA KILL U.S. ALL FOLKS..AND COCK-SUCKING OBHAMMY!

STRANGE SHIT HERE FOLKS..THE WEBSITE. HAS STOPPED POSTING DATA
ON THE 14TH AT 7AM !!!LEVEL WAS AT 727.71

SOMEONE MAY WANNA LOOK INTO WHY THERE IS NO MORE DATA?!?! UH!

SO..IN 12 DAYS..IT DROPPED A THIRD OF A FOOT...NOT MUCH ACTION

UH

Lots of blanks in the data.

[link to cdec.water.ca.gov (secure)]

And we are only about half of our average rainfall at 16 inches.

The fires are already starting.

UH!

YEAH CRUNCH..IT'S WEIRD...I THOUGHT I SAW AN EXPLANATION ON THE CDEC SITE..? IS IT STILL 7AM ON THE 14TH THAT IT DIES?UH

NO...728.18 NOW BUT BLANK SPOTS BEFORE STILL. DID THE SENSORS BREAK?

IGNORE THIS POST..I MIS-SUBTRACTED BY A FUCKING LOT! UH,SHORRY

LOOKS LIKE 4 TO NOW..5 FEET IN 13 OR 14 DAYS..APPROX.! UH..UH.

Stay safe. I would hate to be living below that thing.

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I warned of this 2-3 weeks ago

" Winter is Not Over "

From that article,

The chill from early this week across the Plains, Great Lakes and even much of the South will continue through most of the week, suggested Pastelok. It will then briefly start to moderate before a potential surge of cold air moves into the Plains and Midwest toward next weekend. Chilly air may not retreat for a couple of weeks.

" More Hot Coffee Please "

~Hnry~












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I have lived here since November, 1985. I'm not going anywhere.

The flood years of 1986, 1997, 2017...Gross mismanagement from DWR and local county agencies. Levee breaks and downstream flooding as a result. And then the approval of an upscale community named 'Plumas Lake' In the exact area the levee break inundated in 1997. How soon they forget.

I was listening to my scanners on that night in 1997 as Yuba County Sheriff Deputies were entering the area south of Marysville in an attempt to rescue two individuals trapped in their vehicle as the waters rose.

I will never forget the panic in the deputies' voices as they saw the wall of water approaching them due to the levee break. I heard this on the radio scanner and was powerless to do anything about it.

Thankfully, the deputies were able to unstrap the rubber boat from their trailer and escape, but the people they were attempting to rescue perished.

The entire water management system here in the Sacramento Valley is fraught with mismanagement, poor decisions and outright fraud.

I know I have posted this before, but it bears further mention.

In 1997, it was feared the Oroville Dam Emergency Spillway would be overtopped due to a full reservoir and unprecedented inflow. The main spillway was running at full capacity and the river was high. Downstream evacuation orders were given 24-48 hours BEFORE the Emergency Spillway was expected to be overrun. Thankfully, it did not happen.

In 2017, The Emergency Spillway was allowed to overtop, and evacuation orders were not given until AFTER it had done so. Anyone with a bit of common sense (apparently this excludes DWR and local officials) knew exactly what would happen when the Emergency Spillway started flowing.

I knew it would wash out the hillside below it the first time I saw it over 35 years ago, but apparently the 'experts' at DWR didn't foresee it.

This is what I mean when I say 'mismanagement', 'ignorance' and 'complete stupidity'.

Maybe some rain this weekend haha. I'd guess we are still 5-8 years from the next flood season.

What is DWR doing to fix this shit in the meantime?

Nothing!

Last Edited by Crunch62 on 04/21/2021 09:29 PM