Oroville Dam - Page 2

The Oroville Dam crisis is highlighting concerns that there are substantial risks to the integrity of California’s 1,500 regulated dams due to age and infrastructure underfunding.

California’s troubled Oroville Dam is bracing for a new surge of water as a new storm system hits the Golden State.

A man has been hospitalized with severe head injuries after someone stole his pickup truck during the Oroville evacuation and ran him over, KPIX reported.

President Donald Trump approved federal emergency relief funds Tuesday, following requests by California Governor Jerry Brown. The requests for Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) aid pertain to flooding in January and the evacuation effort due to the risk of spillway collapse at the Oroville Dam.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said President Donald Trump is keeping a close eye on the Oroville Dam situation in California.

California Governor Jerry Brown has formally requested federal assistance from President Donald Trump to deal with the evacuation of nearly 200,000 people from the area below the Oroville Dam, where a spillway is near structural failure.

Brown and his merry band of Democrats had different priorities, like high-speed rail, benefits for illegal aliens, and unsustainable pensions.

The Oroville Dam crisis temporarily subsided Sunday night, as 188,000 residents downriver were evacuated, but the crisis will return with northern California expecting seven straight days of warm rain from another Pineapple Express beginning Wednesday evening.

The San Jose Mercury News reports that both state and federal authorities are to blame, for ignoring a warning raised in 2005 that the emergency spillway could fail in heavy rain.

Officials are releasing water from the Oroville Dam, the nation’s highest, at the astonishing rate of 100,000 cubic feet per second, with the goal of lowering the lake’s elevation by 50 feet before a week of rain and snow hits the region Wednesday.

Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R-CA), who represents California’s first congressional district, told Breitbart News Sunday that authorities suggested the structural integrity of the Oroville Dam’s spillway was not sound and that its potential failure could be the result of a collapse at its center.

The California Department of Water Resources issued a sudden evacuation order shortly before 5 p.m. Sunday for residents near the Oroville Dam in northern California, warning that the dam’s emergency spillway would fail in the next 60 minutes.

The California Department of Water Resources has opened an emergency spillway at the Oroville Dam for the first time since it was constructed in 1968.

Despite the growing break in the Oroville Dam spillway, there are no evacuation plans downstream along the Feather River for Sutter County or Sacramento Counties at this time.

Torrential rains and extreme flooding have torn open a huge hole in the Oroville Dam, as California “extreme drought” conditions plummeted from 62 percent a year ago to less than 1 percent.

With Northern California’s massive Shasta and Orville dams about to fill up for the first time in five years of drought, the state is about to lift mandatory statewide water conservation order for most cities and farms.

Despite El Niño generating three times the amount of snow in Mammoth in the first half of this month as it did for the entire month of November last year, California’s failure to build infrastructure means most rain will be lost to run-off and flooding.