To: rktman; infool7; keat; Osage Orange; EternalHope; SaveFerris
"See post 46 of this thread and talk to the writer there. LOL! ”
Maybe it's because I've been on the internet for a looong time or maybe because I'm getting older but attention grabbing headline set off my BS detector. And usually it's correct. "Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence" and this article provides nothing solid. I did go to the site and not there confirmed the headline. Lotta "woulda, coulda shoulda" and from a gut inspecting from afar.
Maybe it was from Juan Brown, but I've learned that dams leak, not just this one but all dams. Engineers know this and they monitor these leaks. Most are seasonal. Like the "green blob' on Oroville dam. It appears every year when most of the surrounding vegetation has turned brown. And every year the alarmist shout "See, See, the dam is going to burst"
The Oroville spillway is no different. It most likely groundwater or runoff from the recent rains that's perulating from the ground and soon it will stop. The dam's engineers no doubt are monitoring this situation.
Now if tomorrow Juan Brown makes a video and says "Run for the Hills", I'd pack my bags, pronto!
114 posted on
03/18/2019 4:12:38 PM PDT by
RedMonqey
("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
To: RedMonqey
I’ve been watching the spillway rebuild progress through the videos of Susan Wolding on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcIBfWx-RXJDhPpI0kwZwDQ
Last June I asked the Sacramento Bee what the estimated cost for this spillway rebuild was, and they gave an amount of $800 Million. They also said that the original cost to build the dam and everything, in today’s dollars was $1 Billion, with the spillway originally costing $100 Million in today’s dollars.
To: RedMonqey
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