Posted on 03/18/2019 10:42:12 AM PDT by rktman
The $1.1 billion spent to repair Oroville Dam is failing as water is seeping through the rebuilt spillway threatens new mass evacuations over the risk of the dam collapsing.
According to national dam expert Scott Cahill of Watershed Services of Ohio, Oroville Dam is on the same failure track as in 2017, with visible water seepage trickling from the foot of the dam and dozens of points along the dam's principal spillway. Cahill warns that warming temperatures magnified by precipitation is a growing threat to the dam.
American Thinker reported on March 1 that the Sierra snow pack was at a record 113 inches, but another 44 inches fell in the next 10 days. With temperatures spiking this week to 75 degrees in the valleys and 41 degrees in the high mountains, dam inflows are running twice the outflows, and the water levels rose from 800 to 839 feet.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“We all watched the near failure in 2017. They had two years to remedy it.”
And they did remedy it.
“An acre-foot is 43,560 cubit feet.
As measured downstream at Aswan.”
A typo isn’t quite so bad when it’s funny. Thanks for catching it.
Thanks, I watched this 777 pilot’s flyover over the Lake Oroville Dam today.
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I meant CFS (oops)
The historic outflow of the Sacramento delta is 13 MAF per year.
Water was an issue that was important before Moonbeam’s FATHER. Almost every interest group except the largest has had a hand in the massive screw-ups in this area. No idea has been too bad.
It's all good FRiend. :)
Tis ok
Caught it the other day. Thanks. More precip in the forecast for the weekend and next week in the Sierras. Stoopid glowbull warming!
After 2 years, water is flowing again through the Oroville Dam Spillway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNy0YAiPk_U
Thanks for the updated video.
Spillway is open...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNy0YAiPk_U
Here is the guy I have been following throughout the whole reconstruction... A citizen journalist that gives a great de-briefing on what he has learned about the mainstream media during this reconstruction process and holding a press pass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCQmIklHMkY
bing
Lookin good so far.
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