The Lake Oroville dam spillway is supposed to open at 11AM local time (Pacific Time) today. according to reports from the California Department of Water Resources. We have two live cams available for you to watch as the event unfolds.
Readers will surely recall that in January 2017, the spillway collapsed due to a lack of maintenance by DWR, during a strong atmospheric river event that soaked northern California.
Click the images or links to get the live cameras.
http://www.parks.ca.gov/live/lakeorovillesra_spillwaytop
http://www.parks.ca.gov/live/lakeorovillesra_spillway
h/t to Eric Nielsen
UPDATE: 11:20AM PT – It appears the WUWT announcement has overwhelmed the cameras, probably because DWR didn’t plan for the interest and buffer the demand properly with a streaming service.
I was able to make one screencap before the camera stream stopped.
Also there’s this interactive graph, that shows the lake levels.
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Pretty sure it’s South Carolina. It also snowed across the border in NC.
Look at the 7 day snow forecast. What an incredible spring for rain/snow in Northern California, … https://www.j2ski.com/snow_forecast/Spain/Sierra_Nevada_snow.html
That’s for Spain, not California.
Obama’s heritage. Operating again. +++
Seems like the spillway has been running for about two days now.
I wonder how long the engineers will let it run before they check their work ??
I might give it another day or two before shutting it down and inspecting it top to bottom.
Absolutely cranking now.
The California high speed rail to nowhere is the most important infrastructure in CA. Just ask former gov. Brown or current Gov. Newsom.