‘We’re doing everything we can,’ Jerry Brown says of dam emergency

“California has bonded billions in recent years for water projects. Most of those billions have been pissed away on studies and consultants.”

Let me guess...a majority of it spent on eco studies, green alternatives, LGBTQ construction resources, immigrant inclusion, lakeside recreation developments, and scads on travel expenses and meetings at five star hotels and resorts.

California people are ever so much smarter than me. They're all geniuses. They've elected wall-to-wall Democrats to run their state, so this should be cleared up in an hour or two.

FWIW, the people living in the majority of California counties are conservatives. Unfortunately, our votes are overruled by the liberals living in two populous counties, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

It's for this reason there's a mass exodus of people and businesses from the state.

The situation is exactly why the Founding Fathers chose to use the electoral college in Presidential elections. Had they not put the EC into place, we'd all be bemoaning our Madame President instead of celebrating President Trump.

What I hate the most is these FRetards diss CA and they forget FR is located here PLUS we DONATE THE MOST to the freepathon. and i also hate defending mexifornia!

While they’re digging snow out of their east coast hell hole, we take in sunshine, hot girls and beaches.

They've elected wall-to-wall Democrats...

Illegals are allowed to vote in local (non-federal) elections. There is voter fraud here. When the state pro tempura Senate leader admits that even his half of his family, as an example, are illegal and have illegal documents (SSN), then it is an easy step to project that there is wide spread voter fraud. With a SSN and a birth certificate in hand, that are easy to counterfeit, anyone applying for a driver's license, is automatically put on the voter rolls. During the primaries, the two with the highest votes are placed on the November ballot. Since that rule went into affect, we have only Democrats to choice from. Californians are living in a one Party state with little recourse to alter the political field.

We know the initial damage to the main spillway occurred where repair work was done previously. We also know the repaired area was not closely inspected in years subsequent. Much like a pothole, a very likely place to get a pothole is where an old pothole was repaired.

However, you are asserting grave operator error, the assertion being in a previous post that too much water was released down the main spillway, and the excess water overflowed the chute. This should be easy to prove: Records are kept of all such discharges.

A) What is (well, was) the maximum safe (ie., without overflowing the chute itself) discharge rate of the main spillway?

B) Was that rate exceeded before the disruption of flow became apparent?

It’s YOUR assertion...

MY best guesstimate is that the main spillway discharge rate (which is probably determined by a small group of engrs. and techs) was ok, but as the repaired area began to deteriorate, that flow was disrupted, which could have then caused overflow and then the accelerated failure you describe.

Keep in mind that at that point in the spillway, assuming something around 100,000 cfs flow, you have somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,000 - 2,000 megawatts of mechanical energy potential going by. It would not take much of a flow disruption to cause big trouble.

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