I was referring to the title and first line: Impending failure of California dam spillway prompts evacuations Then the first line: Damage to a spillway on California's Oroville Dam -- which prompted an urgent call for residents downstream to evacuate to higher ground -- may not be as bad as previously thought, the Butte County sheriff said Sunday. Anyhow, let's hope for the best. I didn't realize there were two holes . There's no rain right now so there should be time to plug at least one.
It's about time Superman started flying at high speed around the Earth to reverse it's rotation thereby reversing time to where the dam can now be saved. Superman, where are you?
Shame. This was supposed to get fixed years ago, but no one in the gov't wanted to take responsibility and pay for it. US's dams have a D- rating, our infrastructure is in a sad state.
Luckily, the engineering of the dam may have saved it. This could albe much ado about nothing, though still scary.
Wonder what would happen if Mansfield Dam were to fail in Austin and release all the water in Lake Travis downstream.
You may be mistaken for another dam. This dam is fine. The primary spillway had sinkhole discovered last week. Over the weekend, a second hole appeared in the emergency spillway. These problems are because of the rainy season and the two holes.
You are talking about how the environmentards wanted to spend a billion on making a much larger concrete spillway waterslide thing for the emergency spillway. The problem they had was if the emergency was ever used a ton of debris would be washed away and hurt the downstream. The dirty water with this failure is from the primary spillway (that actually had a concrete path) eroding from the huge hole. The eroding has pretty much stopped after bedrock was reached and washing down clean water. They never suggested to emergency spillway was unstable at the actual spillway. That would be a big deal and would need instant action (like evacing 100K people and dropping boulders with helos). The news seems to be running with that tho.
Gee maybe if we stopped spending money on BOMBS and needless Aircraft and started spending on infastructure for our society..... DD
Reports now are that they are pretty sure they can save the dam. They've reduced the level of the lake and now the next storms (starting tomorrow night) aren't supposed to be as bad as the last few. But here's a cool story of different faiths helping one another; I mean, 200,000 peeps are looking for places to stay. http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article132517589.html Sikhs be helpin e'erbody out here.
