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Re: Oroville emergency spillway expected to collapse soon
Author: mook
Date: 02-12-2017 - 18:27

Basically telling everybody anywhere near the Feather River to get out now. Just opened all lanes of 70 to northbound traffic. Everybody on the valley floor in Yuba and now Sutter Co. to get out.

The last few pics I saw show erosion of the embankment alongside the emergency spillway. News conference on now but it's a broken feed. Worry is that erosion below the emergency spillway is working back toward the concrete structure and could undermine it within hours causing collapse. News conf says it's now not eroding as fast as expected - helps giving some hope - but move people out anyway until repairs happen.

Outflow supposedly around 100K cfs now; channel capacity of the river downstream supposed to be 210K cfs, but hasn't been much over 160K in recent floods.

If UP and/or Amtrak has any trains in the area, they probably are trying to clear.

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  Oroville emergency spillway expected to collapse soon mook 02-12-2017 - 17:23
  Re: Oroville emergency spillway expected to collapse soon Hydro 02-12-2017 - 17:40
  Re: Oroville emergency spillway expected to collapse soon Hydro 02-12-2017 - 17:47
  Re: Oroville emergency spillway expected to collapse soon Hydro 02-12-2017 - 17:51
  Re: Oroville emergency spillway expected to collapse soon James Bradley 02-12-2017 - 20:22
  Re: Oroville emergency spillway expected to collapse soon BOB R 02-12-2017 - 18:01
  Re: Oroville emergency spillway expected to collapse soon The Midnight Express 02-12-2017 - 18:09
  Re: Oroville emergency spillway expected to collapse soon BOB R 02-12-2017 - 18:16
  Re: Oroville emergency spillway expected to collapse soon James Bradley 02-12-2017 - 22:24
  Re: Oroville emergency spillway expected to collapse soon Gary Hunter 02-12-2017 - 18:04
  Re: Oroville emergency spillway expected to collapse soon Evacuate 02-12-2017 - 18:09
  Re: Oroville emergency spillway expected to collapse soon mook 02-12-2017 - 18:27
  Fox Feed Here Hydro 02-12-2017 - 18:42
  Re: Oroville emergency spillway expected to collapse soon Nudge 02-12-2017 - 19:32
  Re: Oroville emergency spillway expected to collapse soon M. Harris 02-12-2017 - 19:40
  Re: Oroville emergency spillway expected to collapse soon JamesC 02-12-2017 - 19:57
  Re: Oroville emergency spillway expected to collapse soon Espee2472 02-12-2017 - 20:02
  Jim Speaker to the Rescue In The Know 02-12-2017 - 20:36
  Re: Jim Speaker to the Rescue Commenter 02-12-2017 - 20:59
  From above Oroville David Dewey 02-13-2017 - 00:28
  Re: Oroville emergency spillway expected to collapse soon Espee2471 02-13-2017 - 16:07
  Re: Oroville emergency spillway expected to collapse soon The Odd Duck 02-13-2017 - 00:39
  Re: Oroville emergency spillway expected to collapse soon The Odd Duck 02-13-2017 - 00:53
  Re: Oroville emergency spillway expected to collapse soon English Teacher 02-13-2017 - 06:54
  Re: Oroville emergency spillway expected to collapse soon History Teacher 02-13-2017 - 09:43
  Re: Oroville emergency spillway expected to collapse soon The Odd Duck 02-13-2017 - 14:34
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  Re: Oroville Dam, it keeps getting bettet, and better The Odd Duck 02-13-2017 - 18:31
  Re: Oroville Dam, it keeps getting bettet, and better M. Harris 02-13-2017 - 19:30
  Re: Oroville Dam, it keeps getting bettet, and better Espee2472 02-13-2017 - 19:48
  Re: Oroville Dam, it keeps getting bettet, and better David Dewey 02-13-2017 - 21:54
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  Re: Oroville Dam..Now cover their Ass Nudge 02-14-2017 - 15:30
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  Re: Oroville Dam, Some corrections David Dewey 02-15-2017 - 18:38
  Re: Oroville emergency spillway expected to collapse soon mook 02-14-2017 - 21:42
  Re: Oroville emergency spillway expected to collapse soon Ed Workman 02-15-2017 - 08:43
  Re: Oroville emergency spillway expected to collapse soon mook 02-15-2017 - 09:47
  Re: Oroville emergency spillway expected to collapse soon Espee2472 02-15-2017 - 10:47
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  Re: Oroville emergency spillway expected to collapse soon Espee2472 02-15-2017 - 11:53
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