Flows out of Oroville boosted in an attempt to avoid failure
5:52 p.m.
Releases through the main spillway at Oroville Dam have been boosted to 100,000 cubic feet per second from 55,000 cfs in hopes of easing pressure on the emergency spillway before a failure occurs, officials said Sunday night.
Kevin Dossey, a Department of Water Resources engineer and spokesman said “it might help” to alleviate the pressure.
So far, Dossey said, the emergency spillway’s concrete lip at the top has not crumbled, although the hillside had “eroded to within several feet” of the big concrete structure.
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Marysville and Yuba County ordered evacuated; YESTERDAY
Alleviating the pressure is the only thing that will help, so get busy with diverting the flow.
Wow that water conservation policy enacted because of the never ending drought has worked.
This will happen again, so get ready for it.
California is like more than half way out of its drought.
Great news....wash the damn snowflakes away....or get them on a plane to Canada!!!
I hope Californians don't seek refuge in the United States
Perfect place for Syrian refugees camp, right in the valley.
Full of snowflake juice.byeeeee.
I'd say that they have one "big dam problem" out there in California! And this time it's not the politicians.
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