>What happened so far - Main spillway got damaged - because of no maintaining - because Cali thought that they will never have that much water again - because of Muh Climate Change. And they needed the money for illegals. - They closed the main spillway to inspect the damage - Because of the closed main spillway, water went over the emergency spillway - Emergency spillway was in even worse condition and it got BTFO pretty bad - They opened the main spillway again, so that water doesn't go over the emergency spillway any longer - Main spillway gets slowly BTFO and half of it is gone. But it is stable at the moment. - They try to "repair" the emergency spillway because if rain hits hard, water will go over it again (even if they keep the main spillway open) and would rek the dam
> Be careful! There is plenty of old footage marked als livestream!
>outflow 0 >inflow really low They are fixing that shit now and no happening confirmed
I told you over a week ago
Levi Reyes
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Evan Cook
Got any pictures of the hole from above?
Kayden Richardson
Snow melt incoming with the hot weather?
Isaac Cook
when is this thing going to blow
it's been like 2 weeks
Grayson Anderson
Oh shit, what is happening, cleaning the diversion dam?
Wyatt Cooper
>explanation
Update 3:14 p.m., Feb. 27: Water releases down Lake Oroville's main spillway are on hold for about a week. Managers closed the gates earlier Monday.
They say lower lake levels and this week's dry weather will give repair crews up to seven days to pull sediment, concrete and boulders from the bottom of the eroding structure.
Department of Water Resources Acting Director Bill Croyle says inflow to the lake is much lower than it has been.
He says for most of the month they've been dealing with historic levels of storm runoff.
"We looked at 570 percent of average, is what's happened over the last number of days for his month," Croyle said, "and so that's a heck of an inflow into this reservoir and certainly has been one of the challenges that we've dealt with, with an impaired spillway."
Once the debris at the base of the spillway is removed, water levels at the nearby Hyatt hydroelectric power plant should recede.
The plant was shuttered earlier this month when water levels rose beyond the point where it could be safely operated.
Anthony Gomez
yeah clean time but they are still hiding all pictures/vids of the front of the dam, most likely because it's fucked and they don't want panic
Jaxon Thompson
Tomorrow will mark the start of some warmer weather which may bring high amounts of snow melt into the dam, they're probably assessing whether or not they can turn the Outflow up to 90k again, or they are just satisfied with the probability of no rain for some time, and decided to assess the damage, and what remedies they can implement.
What do they plan on doing about that hole in just a week.
Isaac Robinson
Wait just a week? That amount of concrete should take near a month to dry if you lay it down properly
Luke Sullivan
The higher rates of Outflow protected the spillway from receding backwards, the amount of water in the video would seem to do more damage than 40K+
Aiden Myers
holy fuck that doesn't look good at all will anything happen? what if rain?
James Russell
>Tomorrow will mark the start of some warmer weather which may bring high amounts of snow melt into the dam Don't get your hopes up. The temperatures are often misleading. We're getting cold northern winds right now in norcal. The way to get a lot of snowmelt is warm winds from the south after a bunch of snow falling at low altitudes.
There's no way their inflow is that low, though.
As for fixing, I just hope they're looking underneath the unbroken part of the main spillway for erosion.
Landon Long
I was just judging from last Friday's outlook. The did forecast warmer weather coming from the south, with a high across the mountains to the East of Oroville, and North.
I think they were forecasting warmer temperatures right across the southern states.
William Thompson
The main spillway will take probably a year to fix, the sheer size of the hole that will need to be filled is insane.
Ayden Hughes
it's california
expect it to take 4 years
Luke Howard
Just look at the pick up trucks here for scale That drop off next to the road must be at least 40 ft
Yeah I reckon a good chunk of that hill is gonna slide down the first time they get a heavy rain. I'm surprised they park their trucks as close as they do.
Robert Hill
True, but they don't have a year let alone 4. The really interesting thing is what are they going to do while they are building it.
I don't know when snow melt starts and finishes but once they start repairs on the main spillway, they will not be able to use it until it is finished.
Ryder Adams
cali fag here... it's funny cuz it's true
Ethan Rodriguez
That looks fine. It's just a little scuff.
Sebastian Williams
They probably aren't going to fix the spillway. They'll build a new one cause they don't like taking risks like attempting to build a whole spillway during the 8 month dry season.
Adrian Ross
Do we really need 5000 threads about some erosion on a hill? Fuck off with this shit already.
Jeremiah Myers
Just needs a few sandbags and some grout. Will be good as new.
Something is actually happening now for the first time in a week. Good time for bread.
Aaron Reed
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Jack Thompson
You are probably right, but the question then is where are they going to build a new one?
It would probably need to be where the carpark is the other side of the emergency spillway, which is further away from the river and looks like they would need to blast into rock to carve out one.
Gonna be a long time before they manage to get this under control.
Eli Price
WE NEED MORE BATTERIES !!!!!!
Camden Taylor
is there gold there?
Aiden Cox
can someone get this guy a quick rundown?
Oliver Murphy
If they're willing to blast out 150 feet of the hillside, they could build it here. It's a gold rich area so they might even make a profit on it. Will post other angle.
It's literally called GOLDville. It's one of the sites of the california gold rush, and they harvested gold by eroding hillsides with water.
Nathan Murphy
I don't think it matters if its a natural stream bed, it needs to be able to withstand 150,000cfs of water.
Still those pictures prove just how screwed they are as anywhere else that they can build it is further away from the river.
Dylan Clark
Maybe a split stream solution could provided redundancy, and then some smaller streams at the base could distribute and alleviate the erosion.
Benjamin Turner
Fallout: California
Andrew Martinez
There is literally nothing wrong with this.
Aaron Torres
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Landon Flores
I missed these threads
David Perez
It's a natural canyon, would be eroded by high flow. There is another at least one other option through butte valley, but it doesn't really flow to a river.
Andrew Ward
this is the only real answer. but really how the fuck do they go about fixing this. do they repair the fucked spillway or do they build a new one where the emergency one was and turn the fucked one into the new e-spillway? it has proven it can take a hammering.
Michael Howard
whatever lets them give the most money to illegals, pensions, and high speed rail
Colton Richardson
Checked and lol'd
Hudson Morgan
wait
how did inflow get to the hundreds? that makes litterally zero sense to me
Isaac Peterson
They can't measure it correctly with the spillway offline.
Isaac Nelson
So glad to see this thread. Comfy.
Dominic Jenkins
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Josiah Cruz
Wow, that spillway has be ass blasted. When the flow goes to 100k cps again, that hill is going to be eaten. Praise Kek!
