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opelmanta1900
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9 years ago

Emergency spillway on the nation's biggest damn is moments from failing... 160,000 people expected to be affected...

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Whistlebritches
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9 years ago

Emergency spillway on the nation's biggest damn is moments from failing... 160,000 people expected to be affected...

opelmanta1900 wrote:

Prayers out..........but this makes me wonder why Cali thinks it can succeed without federal dollars.STUPIDITY at best

teedubbya
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9 years ago

Because they and Texas are more similar than different.

MACS
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9 years ago

If it keeps on rainin', the levee's goin' to break!

Gene363
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9 years ago

🙏 🙏 🙏

It's California, but a dam break is a real catastrophe, especially for anyone living on the flood plane below that dam.

Having been a dam operator for some time in California, I am really interested in what caused this leak and how it got so far out of hand. Years ago they had pretty stringent rules for inspection and maintenance. When a state goes broke, they tend to forget maintenance.

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Stinkdyr
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9 years ago

How high's the water, Momma?

:-k

opelmanta1900
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9 years ago

[-o< 🙏 🙏

It's California, but a dam break is a real catastrophe, especially for anyone living on the flood plane below that dam.

Having been a dam operator for some time in California, I am really interested in what caused this leak and how it got so far out of hand. Years ago they had pretty stringent rules for inspection and maintenance. When a state goes broke, they tend to forget maintenance.

Gene363 wrote:

the dam isn't in any actual danger... the auxilary spillway is all messed up and the emergency spillway - which had never been used - basically disintegrated upon its first use...

Gene363
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9 years ago

the dam isn't in any actual danger... the auxilary spillway is all messed up and the emergency spillway - which had never been used - basically disintegrated upon its first use...

opelmanta1900 wrote:

The emergence spillway is unlined and would send mud and tree debris into the river channel. If the rain holds off, they should be able to handle the flow using the damaged spillway. Meanwhile, they are dropping rocks into the crater cause by the broken spillway and the local evacuation is ongoing.

http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article131941279.html

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opelmanta1900
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9 years ago

If it's unlined, what's damaged on it? I swear, it took me about an hour of reading different news stories yesterday to realize the main and emergency spillways were 2 different structures, and i think a lot of news outlets were having the same problem....

A fishing group I'm in has several members from in and around the area and a few of them got some really good pics of the damage to the main spillway before this last storm came in... that hole is massive...

ZRX1200
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9 years ago

#10

On the radio this a.m. they said it was designed to denigrate but it hadoes held out longer than expected.

Also read they've known about the damn for 12 years.

*shrug*

Can understand not worrying about that during a long draught.

elRopo
Aficionado

9 years ago

#11

My understanding is this; "emergency" spillways exist only to ease pressure on and protect the main structure of the dam. If it erodes and fails then the dam will survive. Unfortunately, for the folks downstream the results would be nearly the same as if the main structure were to fail. Prayers sent.

Edited by user 9 years ago | Reason: Not specified