[phantom4570]

The spillway has a problem. It has a giant hole. Oroville Dam is a large earth and rock fill dam completed in 1968. The lake impounds three and a half million acre feet of water. The spillway is built to the north of the dam. I know that even with the damage in the picture they ran the spillway at around fifty thousand CFS most of last night and today. Whatever crater you see in this video will be a lot bigger when they can shut the spillway down.

 

[phantom4570]

Aerial photos and video of the area. Still photos of the spillway moving to video of the Thermalito afterbay full of muddy water. The fish hatchery has millions of baby salmon and steelhead that are being relocated to another hatchery.

 

[phantom4570]

They shut the spillway down today after the lake was lowered sixty feet below max capacity.

 

[phantom4570]

DWR Part 2. This shows the debris field with an excavator and a Cat dwarfed by with scale of the job.

 

[CaptainGyro]

Dang, drones are so cool.

 

[Skeptic49]

Dang, drones are so cool.

Partner with a cinematographer and fly an Octo-copter!
Geoff
Who loved the drone shots on Mythbusters (TM)

 

[phantom4570]

The amount of material being moved here is epic.

March 1 DWR video

 

[phantom4570]

March 2 DWR video