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California dam
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<blockquote data-quote="oldmodman" data-source="post: 15531421" data-attributes="member: 10303"><p>[ATTACH=full]83164[/ATTACH] I spent every summer from 2 to 14 in Oroville. My Uncle was one of the engineers in the building of the power house inside the dam. I used to swim right where the dam is now located.</p><p>Just last year it was impossible to launch a trailerable boat at the dam due to super low water levels. The water was several hundred vertical feet below the boat ramp area. Just the rain runoff from this season has filled the lake. The dam was built as part of the California Water Project. The water from behind the dam flows all the way to Southern California. Almost all the water for the west side of Los Angeles come from there. The east side of Los Angeles gets a lot of it's water from the Colorado River.</p><p>There is no further danger from the water running over the uncontrolled emergency spillway. The only reason water was flowing over it in the first place was that the controllable spillway chute had a damaged area in it and the maintenance division was worried about water undercutting the remaining part of the chute. So for a time they shut off the controllable chute and water went over the emergency area while they dropped huge boulders into the damaged area.</p><p>Here is a pic of the water not reaching the end of the boat ramp and the extension being built. But before they finished the water fell further and was another half mile from the new ramp. So they gave up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="oldmodman, post: 15531421, member: 10303"] [ATTACH=full]83164[/ATTACH] I spent every summer from 2 to 14 in Oroville. My Uncle was one of the engineers in the building of the power house inside the dam. I used to swim right where the dam is now located. Just last year it was impossible to launch a trailerable boat at the dam due to super low water levels. The water was several hundred vertical feet below the boat ramp area. Just the rain runoff from this season has filled the lake. The dam was built as part of the California Water Project. The water from behind the dam flows all the way to Southern California. Almost all the water for the west side of Los Angeles come from there. The east side of Los Angeles gets a lot of it's water from the Colorado River. There is no further danger from the water running over the uncontrolled emergency spillway. The only reason water was flowing over it in the first place was that the controllable spillway chute had a damaged area in it and the maintenance division was worried about water undercutting the remaining part of the chute. So for a time they shut off the controllable chute and water went over the emergency area while they dropped huge boulders into the damaged area. Here is a pic of the water not reaching the end of the boat ramp and the extension being built. But before they finished the water fell further and was another half mile from the new ramp. So they gave up. [/QUOTE]
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