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Our website has moved…. Its new location in at::::
http://orovilledamwatchgroup.com/
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“They’ve already stopped showing the Main Spillway feed from the rotating CAM. It appears they’re adjusting the true Oroville lake levels after their “network” upgrade. Is the feed of the dam recycled from the last time the dam got this high? They don’t have my trust.”
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Watch “THE OROVILLE DAM SPILLWAY CAM IS UP!!!!” on You…..’*Tube.
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that’s the feed in above comment …
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This video shows the upper Main Spillway, which has been skipped for a couple weeks. I just checked the rotating CAM and the CAM is constantly buffering. Might be because people are excited–causing traffic problems–that’s the upper Main Spillway is shown. Maybe it’s been taken offline again.
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Oroville dam outflow has really increased.
05/23/2023 20:00
Current Lake Oroville Reservoir Elevation=891.36′
Current Lake Oroville Reservoir Water Storage=3,402,893
Current Oroville Dam Outflow=17,653
Current Lake Oroville Reservoir Inflow=15,539
Current River Releases=11,923
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The cam front page says they have buffering issues due to high traffic …
I got it to work.
If it shows night time darkness wait a minute for the cam to show the spillway top which has street lights.
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on western states’ water policy:
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Much more snowmelt on the way.
Watch “Shasta, Oroville, Folsom reservoirs nearly full heading into Memorial Day weekend” on You…..’*Tube.
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Oroville, Bullards Bar continue water releases
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/oroville-bullards-bar-continue-water-021800367.html
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Outflow is much lower than usual. This will only increase Lake Oroville’s elevation.
05/28/2023 07:00
Current Lake Oroville Reservoir Elevation=892.67
Current Lake Oroville Reservoir Water Storage=3,423,073
Current Oroville Dam Outflow=3,635
Current Lake Oroville Reservoir Inflow=15,751
Current River Releases=7,054
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Thanks to Marty DeAngelo for this video. This is low, unreported outflow at the Oroville dam. I have never seen an outflow number as low as this must have been since the snowmelt began flowing.
Watch “SPILLWAY CLOSE UP” on You…..’*Tube.
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Rising Lake Oroville puts Nelson Bar parking lot under water
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She did a good video about Lake Oroville activity and surroundings. She talks about the high water and shows video of the top of the dam, with high water level.
Watch “Lake Oroville UPDATE 5/24/23” on You…..’*Tube.
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Lake Oroville seems to be averaging a 0.03 foot per hour rise. Sometimes a little more and sometimes a little less. At 0.03 foot/hour the Oroville dam will overtop in 7 days. Maybe the leaking Emergency Spillway will kick in earlier.
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I wonder how much evaporation there is. I know CA wastes 1/3 of their water on open air canals instead of pipes to import water due to evaporation alone.
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The current EVAP(evaporation rate) at Lake Almanor is 148cfs. I checked the DWR statistics chart for that reading.
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I found the Lake Oroville evaporation map. The rate of evaporation for the first week of June is 160cfs.
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06/01/2023 07:00
Current Lake Oroville Reservoir Elevation=895.05 Feet
Current Lake Oroville Reservoir Water Storage=3,459,955 AF
Current Oroville Dam Outflow=1,835 CFS
Current Lake Oroville Reservoir Inflow=13,637 CFS
Current River Releases from Lake Oroville=5,519 CFS
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Getting stressful today!
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After dark they turned the upper spillway security lights to extra-dim ….
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Also notice that the brightness of their video is turned way down. You can sometimes see that the Main Spillway segment starts extremely bright for a half second to a second, then goes very dark. Helps to turn your video brightness up to 100%.
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[noon CA time] it looks about to rain or dim from smokey wildfires. Very odd looking. The spillway has a little faster outflow than earlier today….
https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=31195
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2 hours later it looks like more water coming down the spillway than before….
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06/06/2023 04:00
Current Lake Oroville Reservoir Elevation=898.73 Feet
Current Lake Oroville Reservoir Water Storage=3,517,538 AF
Current Oroville Dam Outflow=6,977 CFS
Current Lake Oroville Reservoir Inflow=10,265 CFS
Current River Releases from Lake Oroville=6,028 CFS
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1 foot from over-topping to be reached today….
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Millie Kay told me that the 900 foot elevation point is to the top of the untested Emergency Spillway. Of course DWR doesn’t have a public Emergency Spillway CAM. They used to have a nice CAM on the other side of the diversion canal, which showed the Main Spillway and the Emergency Spillway. I also thought the 900 foot elevation point was to the top of the dam. I noticed that there is approximately 4-5 car heights to the top of the dam from the water’s surface judging by cars driving over the dam. You can barely see that the water’s surface appears to be at the top of the Emergency Spillway in the “Home” CAM.
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thanks for your help on this topic, K.M.
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6-6 data – water level at 898.69 ft. (900 = 100%).
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6-7 – looks like bigger water release this morning…. better lighting on the spillway before dawn ….
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This chart doesn’t seem to match what we saw on the spillway cam. Yesterday am (6-6) we saw slow, shallow minimal water released and today is a torrent in comparison. FC
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“Under 1 foot until overtopping of the untested Emergency Spillway. If Lake Oroville continues to rise at 0.03 foot/hour we have about 30 hours left until overtopping of the Emergency Spillway. That’s about 2200 PST Wednesday night.”
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at 5:40 am CA time the live cam gives a clue about greater water being released. You can see tell-tale mist rising from the foot of the spillway in camera range. Mist means big water gushing down there.
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Watch “OROVILLE DAM WATCH GROUP – Finally, Eyes on the Sitch!” on You…..’*Tube.
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Thursday a.m. –
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8:31am CA time – now a light rain has begun….
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Lake Oroville approaches the top
“OROVILLE — The water level at Lake Oroville has approached “the top” at 899 feet elevation for the second day in a row on Wednesday.
The last time the lake approached full capacity in the spring was in 2012, according to an email from DWR information officer Jason Ince.
Ince said there are no plans to test the emergency spillway, but there will be potential for waves to splash over the crest if the weather is particularly windy. He said wave splash will not affect the integrity of the spillway structure or dam…..” (more)
https://www.orovillemr.com/2023/06/08/lake-oroville-approaches-the-top/
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6-7 8:40 am CA time … live cam shows obvious water seepage going down the ‘steps’ …. a stream as wide as a doormat ….
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Millie Kay uploaded this video 2 years ago and it applies 100% to the current Oroville dam situation. The current elevation of the Oroville reservoir at 1800 PST is 899.42 Feet.
Watch “Where would the water go if the Oroville Dam failed? by Millie Kay” on You…..’*Tube.
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[CLICK IMAGE FOR FULL SIZE]
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Sent in – “6.36 inches until reservoir elevation hits 900 feet.”
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Sunday – at least they have some staff looking at it …
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It looks like they put the camera on blurry mode and pointed the lights away from the edge of the full dam…
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This looks like a big lie –
“Lake Oroville sits at 83% of its total capacity as of Friday, which is 860 feet. ”
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Watch “#oroville #california 5-10-23” on You…..’*Tube.
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I haven’t looked to see if any local news outfits are mentioning possible evacuation warnings or anything
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I looked. The Mercury News is doing PR work for the dam.
“Everything’s Under Control” is their mantra.
I recently reviewed “The China Syndrome” and it brought to mind that scene with the station owners in that fancy setting with the chandelier.
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Emergency Spillway CAM Email Conversation with parks.ca.gov
6 June
Can you please add the CAM on the other side of the Diversion Pool, overlooking the Main Spillway and Emergency Spillway to your CAM choices?…I’d like to see the Emergency Spillway when the lake water begins to overtop. A lot of tax payer money went into rebuilding the dam after the 2017 catastrophe.
7 June
info@parks.ca.gov
Thank you for contacting CA State Parks. You have reached the general email box for all 280 CA State Parks. Your email has been shared with the district for response.
Kindly, Debby CSP
7 June
Your emails were received by the Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR). Department of Water Resources maintains and operates the Oroville Dam, including both spillways. The lower camera you were asking about was removed after the repair of the spillway was completed.
DPR staff was able to adjust our Lake Oroville SRA Visitor Center Camera and Lake Oroville SRA Camera to focus on the emergency spillway with the high lake level. These cameras can be found on our http://www.parks.ca.gov webpage, under “Live Video Gallery” under the heading “Visit a Park”.
Please let me know if you have any additional questions,
Aaron Wright
Public Safety Chief
Northern Buttes District
12 June
DWR no longer has a camera located at the Diversion Pool. The cameras were installed for the reconstruction of the spillway, which was completed several years ago. State Parks does have a camera that provides a view of the emergency spillway. The camera rotates views and provides various location shots.
Please note that Lake Oroville will not be overtopping with water flowing down the emergency spillway. DWR will continue to release water via the Hyatt Powerplant and main spillway to manage water levels at Lake Oroville.
Best,
Raquel
Raquel Borrayo
Public Information Officer II
raquel.borrayo ‘at’ water.ca.gov
Oroville Field Division | California Department of Water Resources
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California’s drought-plagued Lake Oroville is now 100% full after a series of powerful winter storms and melting of historically deep ice pack
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12195091/Californias-Lake-Oroville-100-capacity-Shasta-Lake-97-years-extreme-drought.html
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California’s water supply is controlled by this covert room. Can it adjust to climate extremes?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/step-inside-california-s-covert-control-room-that-s-moving-more-water-than-places-to-put-it/ar-AA1ctUEd
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6-15 Today the spillway camera shows a lot of trees. It has been pointed away from the top of the spillway – but shows it briefly while it swings away to show trees.
We wonder if authorities don’y know this constant stream of water down the ‘steps’ may foretell a major concrete problem.
A child playing with a water hose know the power of water.
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sent in ….. full up!
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…. gobs of water leaking from the hill ….
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“Outflow has drastically decreased. The inflow and RIV Rel are basically negating the reservoir elevation increase. ”
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NEGATIVE inflow (!!!)
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06/18/2023 14:00
Current Lake Oroville Reservoir Elevation=899.62 Feet
Current Lake Oroville Reservoir Water Storage=3,531,567 AF
Current Oroville Dam Outflow=13 CFS
Current Lake Oroville Reservoir Inflow=9,719 CFS
Current River Releases from Lake Oroville=5,836 CFS
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The 1500 reading is 899.66 Feet, 4 inches from the 900 Foot Lake Oroville elevation, which is supposedly the top of the Emergency Spillway.
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A brand new video from Millie Kay.
Watch “Oroville Dam Reservoir at 899.69 Feet” on You…..’*Tube.
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Oroville dam full up and leaking all around the top ….
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“That’s 3 inches from the top of the Emergency Spillway. They can send up to 100,000 CFS through the Hyatt Power Plant. Why don’t they? I’ve checked the checoer.com for warnings but see none.”
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This article is from 13 June. Gives you an idea of DWR spin and disregard for human life when the reservoir elevation was at 899 feet last week.
DWR preps for upcoming storms at Oroville Dam spillway.
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That’s why I don’t post their articles ….
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06/20/2023 18:00
Current Lake Oroville Reservoir Elevation=900.07 Feet
Current Lake Oroville Reservoir Water Storage=3,538,686 AF
Current Oroville Dam Outflow=3,294 CFS
Current Lake Oroville Reservoir Inflow=8,979 CFS
Current River Releases from Lake Oroville=5,825 CFS
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Incredible images show DRAMATIC change in water levels at California’s Lake Oroville as it’s seen at 100% capacity last month compared to the crippling drought of 2021
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12217149/Photos-difference-water-levels-Californias-Lake-Oroville-2021-today.html
– ha PHOTOS
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More PR spin? Interesting how the PR spin is ramping up at same time Lake Oroville looks to be going past full-pool. If you’ve noticed, the Main Spillway is releasing paltry amounts of water during the day. The outflow is mysteriously high during the overnight hours but the water flowing down the Main Spillway is still low–hmmmmm.
Watch “Lake Oroville is at its peak capacity, continues to release water in the main spillway” on You…..’*Tube.
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… press is pathetic…
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Oroville Emergency Spillway Edge CAM back online. 👏🎉
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this? https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=31199
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Pushed up by the waves. A sign the water level is too high. Also notice larger amounts of water pushed out of the ports on the Emergency Spillway used to release trapped water beneath the Emergency Spillway. The pressure pushing the water into the soil is enormous.
Watch “👀 never seen this before! wow Driftwood on top of the #oroville #dam #spillway” on You…..’*Tube.
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You can see the water leaking from the areas of the Emergency Spillway have increased. This could mean that the porting problem may not have been solved from 2017 or has been reestablished due to the high water pressure caused by full-pool. The porting problem was discussed by Scott Cahill, dam expert, in this 2019 Flyingcuttlefish post. The OG Wier is the Emergency Spillway edge. Click on the You….’*Tube video link below the disabled video to watch the video.
Scott Cahill Speaks About Oroville Dam Safety – TODAY | flying cuttlefish picayune
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this site also has nice drone footage ….
http://orovilledamwatch.com/
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seems cam is back working ….
https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=31195s
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Reblogged this on flying cuttlefish picayune and commented:
Vermont flooding:
“The Wrightsville Dam just outside Montpelier had just 6 feet of capacity left, Town Manager Bill Fraser said early Tuesday — as he warned there are few evacuation options for residents if disaster strikes.”
https://nypost.com/2023/07/11/fears-mount-as-vermont-dam-inches-closer-to-overflowing/
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I wonder if Oroville dam’s gates are stuck open?
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I wish a local would trek around the bottom of the spillway with a camera phone.
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Watch “What JUST HAPPENED With Lake Oroville TERRIFIED Scientists!” on You…..’*Tube.
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This vid is full of news already posted to comments and has nothing “terrifying” in it. My beef with this channel is he simply makes things up to get a lot of traffic. He has a bunch of vids with “Michio Kaku ” in the title with brazen lies of things he really never said.
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Watch out for hurricane Hillary to brush Phoenix, Arizona and on to central to southern California Sunday evening, Monday, and Tuesday. The storm could/will make adjustments before it hits land on account that we still might have 5 days until impact. The extra rain will surely be a challenge for the high California reservoirs.
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thanks!
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NOTE: Oroville is north of Sacramento.
MAPS-
https://lasinkhole.wordpress.com/oroville-dam/
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TheEarthMaster begins discussing hurricane Hillary at 14:15. He’s a little concerned about a large amount of water lubing the southern San Andreas fault.
Watch “Southern California, Get Prepared now! Hurricane Hilary. 6.5 Earthquake Vanuatu. WED 8/16/2023” on You…..’*Tube.
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California reservoirs might not yet be low enough to handle the additional water from tropical storm Hilary.
Hurricane Hilary LIVE COVERAGE Southern California tropical storm massive flooding.
https://rumble.com/v39qxk4-hurricane-hilary-live-coverage-southern-california-tropical-storm-massive-f.html
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Looks like no rain for Oroville vicinity….
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Six earthquakes in Ojai, California in the last 24 hours. Ojai is north of Ventura, California. Possible lubrication of fault due to extreme rainfall?
Watch “5.1 earthquake Southern California . Sunday” on You…..’*Tube.
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I saw that quake! The town is 10 o’clock from L.A. and a dozen or so aftershocks in the 2 and 3 range.
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Scrubbing away the rust stains?
Watch “HIGH tech push brooming going on over at the Oroville Dam Spillway today” on You…..’*Tube.
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ARE THERE LEAKS ON THE SPILLWAY??
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Today, Wed., the live cam looks very strange …
https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=31195
It looks like picture above with dry spillway with large leaks of water streaming from under the spillway.
Is the whole hillside sodden with water?
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The rainy season usually begins in November. They must be concerned about the reservoir level increasing and putting additional pressure on the ground surrounding the Oroville Dam. As low as the reservoir currently is and they’re having water pushed up from below the Main Spillway shows you how unstable the surroundings really are. The problem areas are likely many. I think it’s difficult to pinpoint the exact tipping point until it’s too late.
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The Daily Mail had a big story on the new snow dump –
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12707337/America-snow-maps-El-Nino.html
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K.M. writes –
“Low & no outflow from the dam. Did they shut off the Hyatt Power Plant? I see they still have a voltage reading.”
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[…] We left off in the recent comments on this post: Watching California’s Stressed Dams […]
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Atmospheric Rivers on the way, drum gates raised.😬
Watch “Lake Shasta Update: High Water, High Risks – A February 2024 Deep Dive” on YouTube.
https://youtu.be/8H0qbpKmqLY?si=b0yloyGzDGeOpGuU
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Atmospheric Rivers on the way, drum gates raised.😬
Watch “Lake Shasta Update: High Water, High Risks – A February 2024 Deep Dive” on You…..’*Tube.
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