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    This video gives a good overview of what happened at the dam. They were in a catch 22 with the primary and secondary spillway. When they decided to switch to the second the erosion jeopardized the dam.

    Quote February 2017 saw one of the most serious dam-related engineering incidents in history with the failure of the service spillway at Oroville Dam. Whether they realized it or not, the people living and working downstream of Oroville Dam put their trust in the engineers, operators, and regulators to keep them safe and sound against disaster. In this case, that trust was broken. This video provides a summary of the event, including an explanation of the engineering details behind the failure.

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    Houseboats Evacuated From California's Lake Oroville Amid Megadrought

    by Tyler Durden
    Friday, Jun 04, 2021 - 10:40 PM

    In Northern California's Butte County, at least 130 houseboats were evacuated from Lake Oroville as water levels fell to dangerously low levels.



    The lake's record low is 646 feet, and the state's Department of Water Resources expects that level to be breached in August. If that happens, public boat ramps would be inaccessible for the first due to low water levels. According to Aaron Wright, public safety chief for the Northern Buttes District of California State Parks, who spoke with AP, the only boat access point to the lake would be an old dirt road constructed in the late 1960s.

    Eric Smith, an Oroville City Council member and president of its chamber of commerce, said the lake would not be usable this year. Over a million visitors visit the area each year. Without visitors, enjoying boat parties, wakeboarding, or relaxing in the sun, the local economy could take a hit as it attempts to recover from the virus pandemic.

    As of Wednesday, The Weather Channel states the lake was at 38% of capacity and 45% of the average early June water level. Low water levels forced park officials to order 130 houseboats to exit the lake in recent weeks.



    The mighty lake provides drinking water to 27 million people and water to 4-5 million acres of farmland. Severe drought conditions plague the area, and low snowpack levels from the Sierra Nevada have culminated into a perfect storm.

    According to Jay Lund, co-director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California-Davis, the state's 1,500 reservoirs are 50% lower than average for this time of year.

    Last month, Governor Gavin Newsom spoke about the urgent action needed to address possible water shortages.
    "With the reality of climate change abundantly clear in California, we're taking urgent action to address acute water supply shortfalls in northern and central California while also building our water resilience to safeguard communities in the decades ahead," Newsom said on May 10. "We're working with local officials and other partners to protect public health and safety and the environment, and call on all Californians to help meet this challenge by stepping up their efforts to save water."
    As a historic megadrought, likely produced by La Nina, decimates the western half of the US, the federal government could declare the first-ever water shortage in the coming months, which would prompt cutbacks in water usage for several western states.

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    ... that's one way of looking at it... however, there is Jim Stone's way of looking at it:

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    AMBUSH: California government draining all the water into the ocean ON PURPOSE.

    I busted them for doing this in 2012 or so - the photo to the right is a leftover from that report. This time they flushed half of a 7 year supply of water during the covid scam. If they are up to this again, well, remember what that guy from India said yesterday? If you missed that, scroll down, if they want a drought to destroy the food supply the way that Indian guy said, they would have to drain the dams, and they are.

    UPDATE: Oroville still has about half it's water, but it is indeed being drained quickly

    700 feet does not mean 70 percent of water is left, the top 200 feet hold about half.

    Lake Shasta is also half way drained

    Though it says it is at 955 feet when max is 1067, empty is at 550 feet, with the top 100 feet holding half the water when full at 1067.

    FOLKS, THIS IS WHAT VOTE FRAUD LOOKS LIKE - dams in California being drained ON PURPOSE to create disaster. An enemy stole the election, not only the federal election, but the California governor election also. They hate you. They want America destroyed. What will they do as a result? Drain the dams! That's a lot less visible than blowing them up.

    Reference:

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    Lake Oroville got a facelift... I got to fly over it today with Juan Browne, of Blancolirio , and will be posting images later if the smoke wasn't too bad to show them.... Wow, it sure was low....

    update...

    truly I only post videos and images to facebook, so I recognize that many will not use that site. Can someone suggest a place to upload the videos so I can share links of the flight and the air images we saw, as I was on a personal flight, so he was not taking video for his site on that flight.

    (My birthday is coming so we went to lunch in Nevada, but decided to buzz town and see the local lakes to see how they were doing)...
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    Default Re: Oroville Dam... (California, Spring 2017 - current)

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1374977
    Hi Denise,

    There is a little about uploading images to Imgur at the link above. Please let us know if you are having any problems, just post your question in one of the threads about images in the Forum Technical Q&A section and I am sure there will be quite a few members with good suggestions.


    So glad to hear you are out and about after the difficut times you have recently experienced, and looking forward to seeing your pictures
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    State’s Incompetence Leads to Major Water Loss
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    (Oroville is back in the news again and the news isn't good.)

    "Hello, welcome to timeBomb and the Lake Oroville update for August 2022. In today's video we will take a look at the current status of Lake Oroville, the second largest reservoir in California. After we review the water level statistics we examine why a state representative accused the Department of Water Resources of mistakenly releasing an extra 700,000 acre-feet of water from the state’s reservoirs."

    Each breath a gift...
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