Oroville addendum....Holes in the main spillway??

in #informationwar5 years ago (edited)

Sure looks like it. This post is an addendum to what I posted last night. The video below has clearer shots of the repair work I was talking about. It's a short two-minute video, and you NEED to see it.

This is serious folks.

AND, they just told the public that everything went just fine with their measly 25,000 cubic-feet-per-second "test" of this main spillway and it is ALREADY failing, when it will be needed at MULTIPLES of that flow rate eventually:

Pause the above at :55. You can clearly see that water has already undermined the wall at the same location I posted about last night. See the dark area below that piece of equipment? Water was flowing OUT through that area. THAT IS VERY, VERY BAD NEWS, as this spillway WILL fail if it is used again this spring, and it will most definitely need to be used again.

At 1:04 she makes the point that the joints between the cement blocks are already "popping" as well, indicating that things went (in reality) about as POORLY as DWR's WORST NIGHTMARE with their "test," and I believe this may be WHY THEY SHUT DOWN THE SPILLWAY, not because of some "successfully completed test."

The holes in the spillway at 1:16 are also VERY CONCERNING. The fact that they make a straight line down the left side of the spillway is a worst case scenario. That may very well indicate that when the next failure comes that the entire left-hand wall and the first couple cement blocks to the immediate right of that left-hand wall will COLLAPSE AND DISAPPEAR. If that happens we will be right back where we were with this spillway two years ago, except $1.1 billion poorer. That same massive cavern will re-erode and re-form itself, and the top of the spillway had BETTER not erode back that new concrete all the way to the gates, or.....

We finally did get an MSM report:

https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/video/3769594-small-cracks-found-in-new-oroville-dam-spillway-concrete/

Erin Mellow is SO FULL OF CRAP she should have her face smacked! This is NOT the way properly handled and set concrete re-acts. I'm sorry, but the lies are just adding up to EXTREME DANGER for everyone from the dam to Sacramento.

Umm.....You'll notice they said NOTHING about the HOLE in the wall...OR that long line of holes in the spillway itself...

If you want to believe DWR, be my guest...BUT IF YOU LIVE DOWNSTREAM, DO NOT RISK YOUR LIFE ON IT!

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Edited to add: AND NOW they are refusing to post inflows/outflows. Soon, they will probably stop posting water elevation as well, and then we will have NOTHING but the possibility of a local chiming in to let us know what is happening.

https://cdec.water.ca.gov/dynamicapp/QueryF?s=oro

FIX THE VISITOR'S CENTER CAMERA, DWR!!!!!!

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