- Why is no one mentioning there is a giant power plant inside the Oroville dam? Wouldn't this have a huge impact on the state's grid if the dam went?
- Those venturing out near the Oroville Dam have likely noticed some construction work being done...
- The first category of theory concerns the maintenance of the Oroville dam, which does indeed appear not to have been maintained at the highest level.
- 8, 2017 in Oroville, Calif. The Department of Water Resources said the erosion at Lake Oroville does not pose a threat to the earthen dam or public safety, and...
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- But there’s more to be done. The crisis at Oroville Dam should be a wake-up call to take these warnings seriously, though it’s hardly the first.
- Figure 1. Oroville Dam holding back the Feather River and forming Lake Oroville. At 235 m (770 ft) high, it is the tallest dam in the US.
- So in this respect, the Oroville dam is a signpost for shortsighted thinking and very large future demands to pour more money into maintenance.
- They describe the Oroville dam incident – what happened and why, and the lessons to be learnt from this incident for all engineers.
- The dam impounds Lake Oroville, the second-largest reservoir in California, capable of storing more than 3.5 million acre-feet.