Originally Posted by Middlefork_Miner
[quote=rnovi]Ah, so this picture makes more sense to me. The main spillway had damage. The emergency spillway then cut into the main spillway exacerbating the damage.

That's bad...really bad.

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The California Department of Water Resources stopped the spillway flow on Thursday morning to allow engineers to evaluate the integrity of the structure after water had been released at 20,000 cubic feet per second through the night. (Courtesy of the California Department

No, the emergency spillway is routed through a ravine quite a ways away from the main spillway...


It cut a path back to the main spillway.