Sentences with phrase «spillway structure»
Failure of the auxiliary spillway structure will result in an uncontrolled release of flood waters from Lake Oroville.»
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«Operation of the auxiliary spillway has lead to severe erosion that could lead to a failure of the structure.
The main spillway at Oroville Dam is riddled with design flaws and so badly damaged that an independent panel of experts hired by the state has concluded it's probably impossible to repair the structure completely before the next rainy season begins in November....
This is used for high risk structures like dam spillways.
The major problem of the Oroville near failure was the downslope on the emergency spillway which had to have the foundation below the spillway buttressed with rip rap rock to prevent cavitation and possible collapse of that structure.
The DWR chose «not to pursue installing Obermeyer gates, or any other structure requiring human or mechanical operation, on the emergency spillway.»