The Oroville Dam saga... Continues.

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How the 178 ft wide spillway looked...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gogreeninitiative/13158374923/

Now it is a broken spillway - Possibly one of the biggest engineering problems of the 21st Century - for the USA. Costs currently running around $2mil per day, going to cost $275mil to repair working between seasons and weather anomalies.

All short, hi res videos mostly from drones.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeod6x87Tu6eVFnSyEtQeOVbxvSWywPlx

The Californian water system and hence the garden of USA, depends heavily upon the Oroville Dam and it's control of Sierra and wider area run off.

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[Roger928]

Looks a mess.
The drone lets you see the scale of the problem.

 

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From the danger in Feb this year :-

A good view of the problem - 10/02/17

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To the latest flyover from our local news-hound cum pilot cum off road biker cum jazz bassist - 'Biancolirio' or Juan Browne to his friends,

Maybe the final view of the broken spillway controlling reservoir water level... From the 'Mighty Luscombe' !

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