California Drought

[Raspy]

bcp

Thanks for all of those great pictures! Take me a while to look at them all.

One caught my attention........

Oroville Dam.

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Photograph shows Oroville Dam, Oroville, Calif. in late 1964. Note Hanzell's Bridge. Chuck Yeager flew under the bridge practicing for his war hero job soon to come. If he had flown under it in '64 or later, he would have hit the dam. The bridge...

1964

 

[bcp]

Here is more information on the spillways, pages 92 to 100, with diagrams, etc. There is much more about the dam on both sides of that section.

California state water project

Bruce

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Many of the construction photos, drawings shown and discussed on the metabunk site listed earlier.

 

[aczlan]

That is a good picture. Hasn't anyone at the dam come up with some original drawings that show how that wall is built and secured to the base rock? It can't just be sitting there on dirt.

They dug down 10 feet into the to the rock to find "suitable rock" for the emergency spillway (not sure how far they went down on the main spillway). Then they drilled holes into the rock and grouted in rebar pegs which they poured concrete over.

Aaron Z

 

[houstonscott]

AP Exclusive: If California dam failed, people likely stuck - SFGate

Look at first picture, if that failed the lake empties.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

So how much rain fell in the watershed in the last day?

Is it expected to overflow again?

 

[houstonscott]

So how much rain fell in the watershed in the last day? Is it expected to overflow again?

I think they are safe for now, hopefully Mother Nature will cooperate.

 

[NoTrespassing]

There should be no exceptional or extreme drought in CA after this last round of storms. So much for the dire predictions of 100 years without appreciable rains and the sky is falling we're all gonna die chicken little forecasts. How many times can scientists be wrong and still keep their jobs? Sure, they'll couch their positions with percentages and all kinds of excuses when they're proven wrong. I wish someone would take them to task once in awhile.

Kevin

 

[k0ua]

There should be no exceptional or extreme drought in CA after this last round of storms. So much for the dire predictions of 100 years without appreciable rains and the sky is falling we're all gonna die chicken little forecasts. How many times can scientists be wrong and still keep their jobs? Sure, they'll couch their positions with percentages and all kinds of excuses when they're proven wrong. I wish someone would take them to task once in awhile.

Kevin

I think that by definition scientists are wrong about a great many things. I am old enough to have seem many scientific truths that we were taught in school have new been proven wrong. Science is an ever changing thing. As old theory's are proven wrong as time marches on we get closer and closer to the truth of our world but at any point in time we are mistaken about much of our amassed knowledge.

 

[houstonscott]

There should be no exceptional or extreme drought in CA after this last round of storms. So much for the dire predictions of 100 years without appreciable rains and the sky is falling we're all gonna die chicken little forecasts. How many times can scientists be wrong and still keep their jobs? Sure, they'll couch their positions with percentages and all kinds of excuses when they're proven wrong. I wish someone would take them to task once in awhile. Kevin

You know that 100 year droughts have happened in California, and will happen again. Anyone think predicting a large earthquake in California is chicken little. You'd be an idiot to think its not going to happen.