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Alert! Danger! California's Trinity Dam now at 97% Capacity! up 3% in 6 days!

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Channel: thornews · 2017 · News & Politics

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The Trinity Reservoir Capacity has gone from 94% on May 1st 2017 to 97% as of May 7th 2017. Shasta Dam has gone from 94% to 96% in only 6 days. The record Sierra Mountain snowpack has just now begun to thaw and melt with the new record high temperatures.

This situation is very serious.

Please be aware and alert.

It could go from danger to dangerous
in the blink of an eye.

God bless everyone,

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Oroville Dam to begin releasing more Water on Wednesday

http://www.krcrtv.com/news/local/butte/oroville-dam-spillway-to-release-more-water/487688056

OROVILLE, Calif. - The Department of Water Resources (DWR) will be increasing outflows from the Oroville Dam to 30,000 cubic feet per second (cfs) later this week. 

According to the DWR, the dam will increase their outflow starting Wednesday, May 10. The Hyatt Power Plant will continue to be operated as needed to meet storage demands. 

The DWR is letting downstream residents know that the Feather River will gradually increase from 7,750 cfs to approximately 30,000 cfs. 

Elevation of lake Oroville is currently sitting at 845 ft. 

As catastrophe loomed at Oroville Dam in February, Tom Stokely's mind drifted 140 miles north to another troubled behemoth. "I thought, 'Boy, they are a lot better off than at Trinity!'" he said, referring to Trinity Dam. "At least they've got an emergency spillway."

Oroville Dam: The latest on spillway repairs – and what state won’t tell us

Outside consultants agree with the state’s plan to spend the next two summers replacing sections of Oroville Dam’s still largely intact upper spillway rather than trying to tear it all out in one season.

But the public can’t see the recommendations the independent board of consultants gave the Department of Water Resources to ensure the work is safe and sound.

In a 16-page report made public late Wednesday, the engineering consultants concur with DWR’s plan to leave the dam’s upper spillway mostly untouched this summer while focusing efforts on the heavily damaged lower spillway.

However, DWR redacted five paragraphs that spell out the consultants’ recommendations for making the plan work.

The consultants’ report, their fourth, was more heavily redacted than the previous memos released by DWR. Erin Mellon, a spokeswoman for the Natural Resources Agency, which oversees DWR, said the latest report contains more information that was considered “critical energy infrastructure information,” or CEII. That rule, intended to prevent terrorist attacks, allows DWR to seal sensitive information.

“There was more CEII in the fourth consultants’ memo,” Mellon said Thursday.

In their memo, the consultants also sign off on DWR’s plan to fill in the gaping chasms in the spillway with fast-drying concrete made from recycled rock that’s been recovered from the Feather River channel below the dam. However, they add that so far the methods used for crushing the rocks don’t produce “suitable material” and need to be refined.

The heavy redaction is the latest example of DWR officials citing security concerns as justification for withholding information from the public following the February crisis, which left the dam’s two spillways badly damaged and prompted the evacuations of tens of thousands of Northern Californians.

Mellon added Thursday that DWR has received a preliminary verbal briefing from a committee of forensics consultants who are studying the possible causes of the spillway fracture. She said DWR plans to release a written report by the consultants within about a week.

She said it remains to be seen whether that report will contain redactions, too.

DWR officials have defended the redactions and the outright withholding of other reports, saying they’re trying to weigh security concerns against the public’s right to know.

“I’m going to be very up front here. It’s going to be a balancing act,” said DWR Chief Deputy Director Cindy Messer at a town hall meeting Wednesday night in Oroville. “I know there’s information that’s already been put out that’s been redacted or blacked out. There will be more very sensitive and confidential information down the road that we have to decide whether we release.”

Assemblyman James Gallagher and Sen. Jim Nielsen, two Republican state lawmakers who represent the area, have complained about the secrecy to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which holds the dam’s license.

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