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Maybe i am missing something but why did they not repair the damaged spillway when they diverted the water to the other one.

They have ways to make concrete set very fast.

Hope no one gets hurt.

officials initially assured the public that evacuations would not be necessary, because the damage to the normal spillway appeared limited. They repeated those assurances on Saturday as the emergency spillway was used for the first time since the dam’s construction in 1968.

Now, however, local ABC News affiliate KRCR reports that state officials warn

I'm shocked to my very heart and soul that the "Officials" could not be trusted,.....

Anyhow,...OBEY OFFICIALS, it's the California way

kidding aside, prayers for those in harms way.

....a POX on politically motivated "Officials", and their puppet masters, as well.

GTC

First time the spillway had ever been used.

You definitely ARE missing something, both spillways are running a raging torrent,....you have concrete that'll "set" under that ?

GTC

That sinkhole in the main spillway isn't a crater from a bomb hit, it's a COLLAPSE of the sub-grade. For a collapse of that scale to transpire, there has to be a LOT of water making it's way from out from under that dam already,....DEEP underneath.

The implications of a potential "blowout" right down at or below the reservoirs bottom are not at all good IMHO.

GTC

Johnstown Flood
From Wikipedia,
The Johnstown Flood (locally, the Great Flood of 1889) occurred on May 31, 1889, after the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam on the Little Conemaugh River 14 miles (23 km) upstream of the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The dam broke after several days of extremely heavy rainfall, releasing 20 million tons (18 million cubic meters) of water from the reservoir known as Lake Conemaugh. With a volumetric flow rate that temporarily equalled that of the Mississippi River,[2] the flood killed 2,209 people[3] and caused US$17 million of damage (about $450 million in 2015 dollars).

You be missing something too. They completely shut off the main spillway yesterday to inspect the damage. I suppose that's when he is talking about.

First time it's been used?

The least of which is the immediate aftermath, an entire regions water supply sits behind that dam. Implications are dire in a worst case scenario.

Not a civil engineer, but guessing that any new concrete that would have been poured would have scoured away in minutes. Massive quantities of fast water is pretty powerful stuff.

I hope CA kept the original sales receipt..