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To: gaijin

That’s absolute B.S. some idiot youtubers are pushing. There is water going down the new spillway as the water in lake Orville is above the bottom of the spillway gates. The spillway gates are not like submarine hatches and are not meant to be 100% watertight. The water that can be seen is just bleedby. The dam is fine.


16 posted on 03/24/2019 9:41:26 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: VTenigma; gaijin
I heard that dam (largest earthen dam in the USA) up above Sacramento still is in danger of breaking.

Just more hokum form sites trying to get "clicks" Sadly I gave them one and there literally nothing to it. Until they open the spillways a little later this spring or summer and test the newly rebuilt spillway, all this is pure BS, as VTenigma states.
23 posted on 03/24/2019 10:15:10 AM PDT by RedMonqey ("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
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To: VTenigma

The spillway is leaking agaim.

Posted on 3/18/2019 at www.freerepublic.com , 1:42:12 PM by rktman

From that story,
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.


51 posted on 03/24/2019 3:35:12 PM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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