http://conservativehardliner.com/liberals-are-blame-oroville-dam-catastrophe

If anyone wants to see controlled panic, this is a perfect example of Californias Marxist politics and it's by product of ignoring infrastructure.
Oroville dam was built in the 60s, making it the last dam built in Ca. also making it relatively new by standards in the US as well.

2013 Oroville dam spillway when they knew there was a problem.




With all the rains and snow we've been having, normal on Ca cycular standards, the state has yet to improve our 100 year old flood control system, from weirs to storage, the system has been an ongoing project, or rather Bandaid effect every time the govt gets caught sucking off the Leftist Legislature rather than doing what it's charged with.

Here is a pic when they first released water into the spillway and realized what a clusterfuck they created via political incompetence.



Yesterday, when they had no choice but to use it to avoid flooding down stream in a couple of days.



So here's the thing, over the last two weeks the state has charged DWR Calif Dept of Water Resources with the job of CYA for the Governor, the very guy that's been fighting the right over fixing our decaying water ways.
It all started when more water was coming in than the system could handle, so the wiers were opened, which is nothing more than a controlled breach in the Sacramento river levee that releases flood water into farmland in Yolo county and killing millions upon millions of tiny animals.
The weir is located roughly halfway between Oroville and the Bay Delta, the place where libs fight to protect an invasive species known as the Delta Smelt.

But getting back to the dam. Like I said, more water has been entering than being released, and if one is to believe the state, everything is coming up roses, despite the fact the reservoir was essentially at max, with a 10% flood buffer.
Well, the time had come that they had to start using the emergency spillways, and as you'll note in the pics, they knew it was a problem 4 years ago and did nothing about it.
Oh, and that 10%? That disappeared in 24 hours, and during this time, the spillway was coming apart at the seams, but none of that really mattered, because now the dam is at maximum capacity and going over the flood stage, meaning they have completely lost control of the river system below.

Here's a pic taken early this morning where the water just breeched the top of the flood dam, in otherwords, they no longer have control.




OK, check out the pics so you can get a sense of what controlled panic looks like because at this point it's in Gods hands.
If I seem gleeful over the ensuing catastrophe, well, that 's because these people were stupid enough to keep voting these Marxists back in power year after year as they fought to protect a faux ecosystem in the Delta. Yes, the Delta is a phony ecosystem in truth, the left supports it by releasing 70% of the state's fresh water into the bay every year to keep this so-called ecosystem alive, a system that every winter became an inland sea, and every summer, a dry mudflat.
Anyway, whatever happens to the people of the valley, the livelihoods and property loss is a direct result of leftists.https://twitter.com/hashtag/OrovilleSpillway?src=hash

If you want to stay abreast of the situation, here's the twitter feed, you never know what you might spot.
https://twitter.com/NWSSACRAMENTO



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walks

Wow....

reminds me of that broadcast when the Korean airline crashed.

Hol Lee Fuk
Som Ting Wong

.... wait a sec... didn't the Liberals in California have control of the climate by now?

Where's all the 4x4's? Don't tell me all of that mud is going to waste.

Nobody panic... The smelt are going to be OK....

Quote from: Hoofer on February 11, 2017, 01:37:18 PM
Wow....

reminds me of that broadcast when the Korean airline crashed.

Hol Lee Fuk
Som Ting Wong

.... wait a sec... didn't the Liberals in California have control of the climate by now?

That's what these libs are thinking, especially when they have to answer to an investigation for breaching the levee downstream to save the Capitol.
Yes, expect to see the Sacramento river levee suddenly have an ahem... "Unexpected" problem, relieving the pressure upstream. or downstream, depending on where they choose to blow the levee.

Quote from: s3779m on February 11, 2017, 02:17:28 PM
Where's all the 4x4's? Don't tell me all of that mud is going to waste.

What mud?
As the flow increases....

Bet you the first thing they do is demand disaster relief. Isn't this the same California that was telling the rest of the country that they could go it alone and secede?

Quote from: mdgiles on February 11, 2017, 02:25:31 PM
Bet you the first thing they do is demand disaster relief. Isn't this the same California that was telling the rest of the country that they could go it alone and secede?

These morons tend to forget this dam belongs to the Fed, that the state is charged with its operation and maintenance, but the fed foots the bill.
This state simply doesn't have the funds to keep the infrastructure intact, let alone feed a million illegals.
I'm going to start voting Dim in hopes that they'll get everything they want, counting on it choking on itself.
Feed the pig more than it can take.

Swollen river system visible from space.



Click this link for a better view.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4auwrxWAAAvIL9.jpg:large



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walks

My under standing there a relief system off to the left.  If they did not use the spillway it would go out the relief system and wipe out a lot of trees and dirt.   The relief system was only if the spillway could not do the job.  That would put a lot of debris flow down below.



Found the clip on it.
http://my.xfinity.com/video/200-foot-long-hole-in-damaged-calif-dam/874491459917/Comcast/Top_Video_Clips?cid=sf_vidtray_Dam&tab=News

Quote from: walkstall on February 11, 2017, 04:38:13 PM
My under standing there a relief system off to the left.  If they did not use the spillway it would go out the relief system and wipe out a lot of trees and dirt.   The relief system was only if the spillway could not do the job.  That would put a lot of debris flow down below.



Found the clip on it.
http://my.xfinity.com/video/200-foot-long-hole-in-damaged-calif-dam/874491459917/Comcast/Top_Video_Clips?cid=sf_vidtray_Dam&tab=News

That was yesterday...
It's already happening, it started this morning. Look at the last pic of the dam itself, all that white water is going over that emergency spillway.
In other words, the lake is over full and the flow of water out of the dam is no longer being controlled.
Look at the pics close, you'll see all gates and spillways are open, and essentially out of control.

Is a spillway a sort of release valve?

Never fear, and army of Greenies are on the way in Period VW mini buses to rescue spotted tree gnats and the brown three eyed slug.

Quote from: The Boo Man... on February 11, 2017, 06:51:45 PM
Is a spillway a sort of release valve?

You could call it that. It's when the water gets too high, it goes out a controlled spillway to the river so as to not damage the area around the levee.
The emergency spillway is a last resort when the first spillway can't handle the job, which is now two feet below lake level.
The emergency spillway is at 900', the lake level is at 902' and rising.
In other words, there is more water continuing to enter the reservoir than is escaping the dam and it's not decreasing any time soon.

Quote from: Solar on February 11, 2017, 07:33:39 PM
You could call it that. It's when the water gets too high, it goes out a controlled spillway to the river so as to not damage the area around the levee.
The emergency spillway is a last resort when the first spillway can't handle the job, which is now two feet below lake level.
The emergency spillway is at 900', the lake level is at 902' and rising.
In other words, there is more water continuing to enter the reservoir than is escaping the dam and it's not decreasing any time soon.

So the water went over the spillway rather than through it?