Government THEATER on parade in California as helicopters drop useless bags of rocks onto failing Oroville dam for the TV cameras
by: Vicki Batts
NaturalNews.com
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Nearly 200,000 Californian residents have had to be evacuated since Sunday night, thanks to a damaged emergency spillway belonging to the tallest dam in the United States. The Lake Oroville dam is still intact, but its emergency spillway, which keeps the dam from overflowing, began eroding away on Sunday.
The evident damage prompted emergency evacuations across several cities and counties near the dam. One official commented that in a worst case scenario, an uncontrollable 30-foot wall of water would be released downstream. This potential disaster appears to unfortunately have been a long time coming.
Mercury News reports, “More than a decade ago, federal and state officials and some of California’s largest water agencies rejected concerns that the massive earthen spillway at Oroville Dam — at risk of collapse Sunday night and prompting the evacuation of 185,000 people — could erode during heavy winter rains and cause a catastrophe.”
It seems that the catastrophe may finally be here, as water continues to pour from the dam.
Lake levels were reportedly dropping by a shocking one foot every three hours, as 100,000 cubic feet of water came pouring out of the lake per second. Zero Hedge reports that at current pace, the lake “will fall to about 400,000 acre-feet below its emergency spillway by Thursday morning.” However, the lake needs to fall by about 700,000 acre-feet in order to get back to its mandated flood-prevention levels.
Officials say that they are hoping to drain the lake by at least 20 to 30 feet by the next storm, which may come as soon as Wednesday. In an effort to quell the damaged spillway, giant sandbags are being filled with aggregate. Helicopters are being used to drop sandbags and rocks to plug up the eroded spillway and supposedly limit the damage that will be caused, but is it just another case of government theatrics?
There is reason to believe that the most important factor in controlling the flood will not be how many rocks and sandbags the government can drop off onto the damaged flood, but rather it will be dependent on how much rain continues to fall on California. Indeed, it seems their actions are more for appearances than anything else.
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