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Anonymous Coward User ID: 73829327 United States 02/19/2017 03:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is terrible. Oroville Dam From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Oroville Dam is an earthfill embankment dam on the Feather River east of the city of Oroville, California, in the United States. At 770 feet (235 m) high, it is the tallest dam in the U.S.[8] and serves mainly for water supply, hydroelectricity generation and flood control. The dam impounds Lake Oroville, the second largest man-made lake in the state of California, capable of storing more than 3.5 million acre-feet (4.4 km3)[9]. It is located in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of the Sacramento Valley. Built by the California Department of Water Resources (DWR), Oroville Dam is one of the key features of the California State Water Project (SWP), one of two major projects passed that set up California's statewide water system. Construction was initiated in 1961, and despite numerous difficulties encountered during its construction, including multiple floods and a major train wreck on the rail line used to transport materials to the dam site, the embankment was topped out in 1967 and the entire project was ready for use in 1968. The dam began to generate electricity after completion of the Edward Hyatt Pump-Generating Plant, then the country's largest underground power station. Since its completion in 1968, the Oroville Dam has allocated the flow of the Feather River from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta into the State Water Project's California Aqueduct, which provides a major supply of water for irrigation in the San Joaquin Valley as well as municipal and industrial water supplies to coastal Southern California, and has prevented large amounts of flood damage to the area more than $1.3 billion between the years of 1987 and 1999.[10] The dam has confined fish migration up the Feather River and the controlled flow of the river as a result of the Oroville Dam has affected riparian habitat. Multiple aims at trying to counter the dam's impacts on anadromous fish have included the construction of a salmon/steelhead fish incubator on the river, which began shortly after the dam was completed. After heavy rains in February 2017, the main spillway was damaged and an anticipated failure of the auxiliary spillway resulted in the mass evacuation of towns in the river basin. [link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)] |
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User ID: 73973904 United States 02/19/2017 03:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here is a link for live coverage of the Oroville Dam Spillway busting. I'll look for more coverage but, for now, live link: Quoting: YanceyDoodleDandy very little water actually traveling down the remaining spillway now. almost 100% of the water is heading towards the Dam side of the spillway. you can even see water flowing to the left of the spillway. Chugiakian |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 69489480 Netherlands 02/19/2017 03:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | very little water actually traveling down the remaining spillway now. almost 100% of the water is heading towards the Dam side of the spillway. you can even see water flowing to the left of the spillway. Little to optimistic I guess...This doesn't look goodt al man! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 27379992 Canada 02/19/2017 03:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here's some on-site analysis, together with an aerial photo of the flooded town of Maxwell, California, one of the first casualties. Can't resist saying this - "De-Nile (denial) is a river in Egypt." LINK POSTING TODAY, Doug in Oroville -- [link to doomerdoug.wordpress.com (secure)] |
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