Thread: Oroville Dam
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13th February 2017, 10:23 #1
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Oroville Dam
Probably be part of another series of when Engineering goes wrong.
https://youtu.be/oQxVmKnBgvc
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13th February 2017, 13:34 #2
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I saw yesterday evening that evacuation orders had been issued for about 130,000 people.
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13th February 2017, 20:09 #3
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Fixing the emergency spillway
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/13/calif...ommentary.html
Sierra Club pointed out deficiencies 12 years ago.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...irs-evacuation
Dropping rocks by helicopter
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/13/us...llway-failure/Last edited by Zeakiwi; 14th February 2017 at 04:41.
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20th February 2017, 18:29 #4
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Looks like the main spill way has had a little bit of extra erosion - pics 16 & 17
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/1...ency-spillway/
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9th March 2017, 00:33 #5
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Living here in the drought stricken state (with little noticeable effort to increase water storage) and observing the blind ambition of creating a High Speed Rail ("Racket" more like) system that was proposed as $6 billion just 7 or so years ago, before more accurate (and honest) costs were finally forecasted for the project to hit 100% of what the first estimates indicated... or were so promised to the public to further assist in passing proposition... so... I'm gonna say California is a part of another series of when politics go wrong.
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9th March 2017, 02:54 #6
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