O/T Physics question: What kind of energy would be required to cause evaporation of some of the water?
Would this be possible? On Feb 13, 2017 12:36 PM, "Chuck McCown" <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: > Easy to armchair quarterback but I would think they could bolt 1 inch > plates over the hole in the main spillway, put some I beam piles under the > plates and open it back up. At least until they take some inches off the > reservoir. I wonder if there is a way they can set the angle on the > turbines to waste more water there too. > > -----Original Message----- From: Robert Andrews > Sent: Monday, February 13, 2017 11:28 AM > To: af@afmug.com > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT - Oroville dam > > As of this morning they are saying the regular spillway is supporting > the 100K cfs without further damage. If that it true, then there is > the ability to deal with what's happening over the next couple of weeks, > which looks like 4-5 sequential storms. We got a 4-5 day break in > weather this week but if it goes back to last months pattern we are in > serious trouble throughout the west. That spillway needs to do 100K cfs > for weeks to keep pressure off the hillside below the emergency > spillway. Californa and the Feds were sued over in 2005 to put > concrete down on that hillside by the Sierra Club. The worse case > situation is that the lake goes over the emergency spillway, it erodes > below, the spillway fails and the hill below what was the spillway just > keeps going away. Moving water, and it would be a lot, would grand > canyon the hill... It would be enough water to destroy most of the > feather river and Sacramento levee system below the dam.. That would > be really really bad... ( Inlaws in Yuba city )... > > On 02/13/2017 08:47 AM, Jason Wilson wrote: > >> 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. >> >> >> >> Jason Wilson >> Remotely Located >> Providing High Speed Internet to out of the way places. >> 530-651-1736 >> 530-748-9608 Cell >> www.remotelylocated.com <http://www.remotelylocated.com> >> >> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 8:31 AM, Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com >> <mailto: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> >> >> On 2/13/2017 8:11 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: >> >>> >>> 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.____ >>> >>> >> >> >
