Oroville, CA emergency evacuation

Is that going to affect you folks Mr. Otter?

 

You know... that starts to look like Brasil... every raining season causes mudslides in the hills area of Rio and other states... lots of damages, people die... but they do nothing to prevent that... There, however, it's not because of environmental issues but because they don't care...

 

Has anybody read or heard what the Corps of Engineers estimates is the water runoff flowing in? Is it still more then the rate they can release at maximum release? Looks like if they can get a reprieve from more rain for a few more days, they could get the lake level below the weir (if that's where the erosion is occurring)

 

Emergency overflow spillways are always a concern for engineers in dealing with rapid erosion but to my way of thinking, it should never be a problem that enough properly reinforced concrete, built far enough out, and built to earthquake region standards won't fix.

But I also can't help but think maybe somebody should have anticipated all the water based on long term forecasts and began releasing more water a few months ago, to make room for the rapid and massive influx of water that was known to be coming. But that may not be a reasonable statement given how valuable stored water is in California.

Plus, there might have been an assumption that a weeklong overflow might not be a concern as it was [supposed to be properly] designed with this contingency and expectation in mind

 

Moonbeam just called for a million to be evac. from Sacramento.

 

I guess you didn't read what you posted the link to. Did you mean to post a link to something different?
Frank