Shocking Oroville Spillway Damage-Incredible!

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Oroville – The state Department of Water Resources halted flows down Lake Oroville’s spillway Monday afternoon in an effort to get the Hyatt Powerplant up and running and to assess damage.

GIGANTIC Spillway Damage At Oroville - Race On To Save Dam Powerhouse

Photo: Santiago Mejia, The Chronicle

In order to use the powerplant under the dam, the department needs to remove debris in the Diversion Pool at the base of the spillway that started crumbling Feb. 7.

DWR needs to remove the debris, which has in effect created a dam across the river below, and lower the water level in the Diversion Pool to a point at which it is deemed safe to operate the plant.

Debris is being moved from upstream and used to fill in a pond that once housed fish and turtles along the train tracks between Cherokee Road and the Brad Freeman Trail on Wednesday. Emily Bertolino — Enterprise-Record

Oroville >> Trucks are moving debris from the Diversion Pool below Oroville Dam to various locations, including dumping it into a year-round pond that a nearby resident said is usually full of bass, bluegill and turtles.

The debris build-up began when a major break opened in the concrete chute this month. With no other way to get enough water out of the lake, the department had to let the spillway flow with the realization the bottom part of the ramp would be torn up.

With the absence of flows, the department is able to survey the extensive damage to the spillway. The flow down the broken spillway carved a new path and a huge ravine south of the spillway, toward the dam. That debris, rocks, trees and dirt, mostly ended up in the Diversion Pool.

DWR spokesperson Lauren Bisnett said the department estimated at 3 p.m. Monday that there was 500,000 to 1 million cubic yards of debris in the Diversion Pool. The higher figure is the equivalent of a football field stacked 470 feet high with debris, she said.

Figuring that mass in terms of dump truck loads that must be hauled away, the average commercial dump truck can carry up to 18 cubic yards of material. That’s 55,556 truck loads that will be hauled away and dumped near the dam.

Flows began decreasing starting at 6:45 a.m. Monday morning, down from 55,000 cfs. As of 2 p.m., inflows to Lake Oroville were coming in at 24,089 cfs, a department spokesperson said.

The lake’s surface was at 838 feet of elevation. That’s 63 feet below its 901-foot capacity, which when exceeded causes flows to go down the problematic emergency spillway as happened a week and a half ago, triggering evacuation orders for more than 180,000 people.

With the spillway turned off, there’s still enough space in the lake to handle more than 40 days at the current rate of inflow without filling, the DWR said.

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Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said an evacuation plan for residents downstream of the dam is now complete and he was meeting with entities on Monday to finalize it. He said later in the week, he would meet with local media to discuss those plans. Preparing a social media campaign and community meetings in areas affected are also in the works, Honea said.

“Everybody (will have) an opportunity to look at the plan and understand the key early warning triggers,” he said.

“With drones, helicopters, and a team of geologists and other experts, we’re still gathering information about the extent of the erosion on the main spillway,” said Nancy Vogel, a spokeswoman for the California Natural Resources Agency, which oversees the water resources department. “The damage to the lower portion of the spillway is severe.”

The crisis began unfolding Feb. 7 amid rainstorms that raised Lake Oroville toward capacity. While dumping water downstream, crews discovered a gaping hole in the concrete spillway, forcing them to reduce the flow.

That caused water to flow over the reservoir’s earthen emergency spillway for the first time in the dam’s 48-year history, causing rapid erosion and fear of a collapse of the emergency spillway. The danger prompted the Feb. 12 evacuation of as many as 188,000 people living in downstream communities.

The ravaged main spillway was dry Monday for the first time in about two weeks, allowing workers to clear out debris below in a bid to get the dam’s hydroelectric plant back up and running, officials said. The plant acts as another water release system.

“It’s certainly a big hole,” said Jay Lund, director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at UC Davis, of the damage on and around the main spillway. “They’ll be looking to see how well that gully stabilizes, because later on this season they will need to use that spillway.”

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yaridanjo • 17 hours ago

This crisis is not over by a dam site. Gov. Brown's fiasco is still with us. His neglence of California's infrastructure still has the people of the greater Oroville area exposed to massive danger. The upstream resovoirs are filled to capacity and still streams are letting the massive wet snow melt from the mountains trickle into lake Oroville. That trickle can quickly become a torrent. The emergency spillway is not structurally sound and if it fails, a cubic kilometer of water could be rapidly dumped onto the downriver region. The main spillway is horribly damaged, and it does not seem like a quick fix is possible there either. This is a catastrophe waiting to happen, and it will go down in history as Brown's Catastrophe. Hope it is not accompanied with a massive loss of life and property.

 

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  Dave Ron Blane  yaridanjo • 9 hours ago

  
  

  Blame it on Brown! LOL

  this dam is over FIFTY years old you idiot.

  
  

  
  

   

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    Barry Warmkessel  Dave Ron Blane • 6 hours ago

    
    

    There are lots of old dams. Gov. Brown failed to fix the main spillway when warned about the crack or opening in it and he failed to fix the emergency spillway by concreting a path down to the Feather River in the event of an overflow. This is malfeasance in office. It does rest squarely on his shoulders. But he had the support of the CA assembly, and they failed to issue warnings. Our government is irresponsible. He put the money for repair of the dam elsewhere, and this message board if full of those complaints. But what it really boils down to, is that that the State Government put the interests of corporations before those of the safety of its citizens. This is fascism plain and simple. It is that more than anything that he (and the CA assembly) should be held accountable for.

    We will be very lucky if this does not develop into a major catastrophe for California. Odds are against a safe ending to this fiasco.

    
    

    
    

     

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LiveCopter 3 flies over repairs at Lake Oroville spillway

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22 Signs That Global Weather Patterns Are Going Absolutely Crazy

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By Michael, on June 4th, 2013 WEATHER ALERT: Strong Storms With Heavy Rain, High Winds Moving Across … USDA Warns Farmers About Climate Change Impacts

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Global weather patterns seem to get stranger and stranger with each passing year.  Almost every day now, the news is telling us about some bizarre weather event that hasn’t happened “in 100 years” going on in some area of the globe.  All over the planet, we are seeing torrential rainfalls, unprecedented flooding, extreme drought, nightmarish wildfires, record setting tornadoes and very unusual blizzards.  Record high temperatures and record low temperatures are set so frequently now that nobody really seems to even notice anymore.  So exactly what in the world is going on here?  Why does our weather seem to be going absolutely crazy?  Perhaps even more important – can we expect our weather patterns to become even more erratic?  Some meteorologists are suggesting that these unusual weather events are just an “anomaly” and that things will get back to normal soon.  But what if they don’t?

 

I noted that natural disasters seem to be increasing in both frequency and severity in my recent article entitled “Are We Entering The Worst Period For Natural Disasters In U.S. History?“  But it isn't just the ground under our feet that seems to be becoming more unstable.  The weather patterns that we all take for granted and that society depends upon seem to be rapidly changing. The following are 22 signs that global weather patterns are going absolutely crazy… 1. Right now, central Europe is experiencing the worst flooding that it has seenin at least 70 years. 2. On Memorial Day weekend, a vicious winter storm dumped up to 36 inches of snow on parts of upstate New York. 3. Back in mid-May, on one single day some parts of the UK had a couple of inches of snow, some parts of the UK had a month’s worth of rainfall on a single day, and some parts of the UK were hammered by winds of up to 65 miles per hour. 4. The month of April was so cold across the northern United States that one meteorologist said that it was “like something out of the Twilight Zone“… April has been a freakishly cold month across much of the northern USA, bringing misery to millions of sun-starved and winter-weary residents from the Rockies to the Midwest. “The weather map … looks like something out of The Twilight Zone,” Minneapolis meteorologist Paul Douglas of WeatherNation TV wrote on his blog last week. Record cold and snow has been reported in dozens of cities, with the worst of the chill in the Rockies, upper Midwest and northern Plains. Several baseball games have been snowed out in both Denver and Minneapolis. Cities such as Rapid City, S.D.; Duluth, Minn.; and Boulder, Colo., have all endured their snowiest month ever recorded. (In all three locations, weather records go back more than 100 years.) In fact, more than 1,100 snowfall records and 3,400 cold records have been set across the nation so far in April, according to the National Climatic Data Center. 5. This year Saskatchewan had the coolest spring that it has experienced in 100 years. 6. Moscow just experienced the snowiest winter that it has seen in 100 years. 7. Snow is falling in Russia in places where it should not be falling this time of the year.  On Sunday, residents of Kemerovo were stunned to see that a thin layer of snow had fallen on their city overnight. 8. This spring, there was a record amount of ice on the Baltic Sea due to very cold weather… “Since record keeping began in the sixties, we’ve never encountered anything like this before,” ice breaker Ulf Gulldne told the local newspaper Örnsköldsviks Allehanda. On March 29th, 176,000 square kilometers of the Baltic Sea was covered in ice, a record for the time of year. On a map, it means about half of the central and northern parts are frozen over. Far north, the ice is both thick and difficult to break through. 9. The city of Anchorage, Alaska set a record for the longest snow season that it has ever experienced this year. 10. In February, hail the size of “boulders” pounded one poor city in southern India… Hailstones the size of boulders have rained down on villages in southern India. At least nine people were killed when the violent weather hit several villages in the state of Andhra Pradesh. The hailstorm which lasted for almost 20 minutes, destroyed crops, houses and live stock, causing devastating financial implications for residents. 11. The tornado that touched down near Oklahoma City on Friday was the widest tornado ever recorded.  It was an EF5 tornado that was 2.6 miles wide at one point with winds of up to 295 miles an hour. 12. The tornado that did such devastating damage to Moore, Oklahoma recently was about 2 miles wide and it sat on the ground for an astounding 40 minutes. 13. During the month of February, Peru, Chile and Bolivia were all hit byunprecedented flooding. 14. At the end of May, more than a foot of rainfall in 24 hours caused nightmarish flooding in San Antonio, Texas. 15. A few weeks ago, unusual levels of rainfall caused the Mississippi River to rise to near record levels. 16. This year the state of Georgia experienced the wettest February ever recorded. 17. Chicago just had the wettest April ever recorded. 18. Scientists are projecting that the nightmarish drought that is taking place in the western half of the United States will “intensify” this year. 19. Overall, hundreds of thousands of trees died throughout the United States during 2012 due to horrible drought conditions. 20. This past January, part of Australia experienced record setting high temperatures that were absolutely unprecedented.  Keep in mind that the following temperatures are in Celsius… Sydney endured its hottest ever day on Friday, with records smashed across the city and thousands of people suffering from the heat.  The mercury topped 45.8 at Sydney’s Observatory Hill at 2.55pm, breaking the previous record set in 1939 by half a degree. The city’s highest temperature was a scorching 46.5 degrees, recorded in Penrith at 2.15pm, while Camden, Richmond and Sydney Airport all reached 46.4 degrees. 21. Over the weekend, extremely dry conditions were making it difficult for firefighters to battle a very intense wildfire in California that had already burnedmore than 20,000 acres… By Sunday night, the Powerhouse Fire around the Angeles National Forest in Southern California engulfed about 22,400 acres, endangering some 1,000 homes in the Lake Elizabeth and Lake Hughes area. Nearly 2,100 firefighters struggled to contain the fire, which more than tripled in size from Saturday to Sunday. Nearly 3,000 people have been evacuated and the blaze has already destroyed at least six homes by Sunday night. 22. About 30 percent of all honeybees are dying each year in the United States, and nobody seems to know exactly why this is happening.  If this continues, it threatens to absolutely cripple U.S. agriculture… US honey bees have been dying by the tens of millions, with annual death rates of about 30 percent. With fewer bees to pollinate fruits and vegetables each year, ‘beemageddon’ may soon cause the collapse of the agriculture industry. Honey bees pollinate more than 100 US crops, including apples, zucchinis, avocados and plums, that are worth more than $200 billion a year. Since 2006, about 10 million bee hives at an average value of $200 each have been lost in what scientists call the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), according to a new report by the US Department of Agriculture. We certainly don’t need any more bad news about our agriculture.  Global food supplies are currently at their lowest level in 40 years, and most people in the general public are absolutely clueless about what is going on. Unfortunately, our weather has not just been unusual for the past few months.  This is a trend that has been developing for quite some time. For example, the planet experienced some truly unusual weather last winter.  The following comes from a New York Times article from last January… Around the world, extreme has become the new commonplace. Especially lately. China is enduring its coldest winter in nearly 30 years. Brazil is in the grip of a dreadful heat spell. Eastern Russia is so freezing — minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit, and counting — that the traffic lights recently stopped working in the city of Yakutsk. Bush fires are raging across Australia, fueled by a record-shattering heat wave. Pakistan was inundated by unexpectedflooding in September. A vicious storm bringing rain, snow and floods just struck the Middle East. And in the United States, scientists confirmed this week what people could have figured out simply by going outside: last year was the hottest since records began. Indeed, “extreme has become the new commonplace” as far as our weather is concerned. So will our weather get back to “normal” soon or are even greater changes ahead? And what in the world is causing all of this? http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/22-signs-that-global-weather-patterns-are-going-absolutely-crazy Be Well. David

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MAGDEBURG/GROSS ROSENBURG, Germany (Reuters) - Thousands of people left their homes in eastern Germany on Sunday as a dam burst on the swollen River Elbe and swathes of farmland were flooded in an attempt to spare towns, with meteorologists forecasting more rain.

In Hungary, the Danube was also set to reach record levels in the capital Budapest on Sunday night and Prime Minister Viktor Orban said dikes had been strengthened at critical points to protect the city from flooding.

The deluge reached Hungary on Friday but so far authorities, soldiers and thousands of volunteers have managed to defend the villages and towns along the Danube, piling more than three million sandbags beside its dikes.

Carmaker Suzuki, one of Hungary's main exporters, said it would will halt production at its plant in Esztergom, north of Budapest, on Monday because of the floods.

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