100,000cfs is correct. That spillway will support 250,000cfs, but the
Feather River channel will only support about 216,000cfs. It has been 10
years since the Channel has been stressed to this point, last time there
were levee breaches. Their hope is to drawdown the reservoir 50 feet below
the rim to do a couple things, one is to take pressure off of the presumed
damaged emergency spillway. The other is to make room for precip that is
coming into california towards the end of the week. Of course they cannot
do any repairs to the facility until after the rainy season is over, and
the snowmelt had finished.
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On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 8:31 AM, Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I heard a reporter saying that the water going over that spillway was
> doing 100,000 cubic feet per second. I have a really hard time visualizing
> that amount of water. Could also have been a mis-quote by the reporter...
>
>
> bp
> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
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> On 2/13/2017 8:11 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
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> So the �good news� is they�re going to drop bags of rocks from
> helicopters?
>
> �
>
> I hope my good news never involves helicopters dropping rocks.
>
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