California Dam Crisis: Racing to Avoid Environmental Disaster | National Geographic

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Workers rush to make repairs at the Oroville Dam in California. Footage courtesy Cal OES, California DWR
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The tallest dam in the United States is the site of a major emergency response. California's Oroville Dam holds a reservoir containing 1.1 trillion gallons of water, providing water-and power-to much of the state. Recent weather events caused it to fill up way above normal capacity. Concrete in the 50-year-old dam's main spillway, designed to handle overflow, crumbled, forcing managers to use the auxiliary or emergency spillway. Water pouring from the emergency spillway caused damage to the ground below, putting that spillway at risk of collapsing and leading to an evacuation of more than 180,000 nearby residents. The situation has since stabilized and people have been told they can return home, but workers are still rushing to make repairs and shore up the dam ahead of approaching storms.
Read more about the crisis in Oroville and the state of disrepair affecting thousands of dams across the country.
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@mrxxbrian 7 лет назад

CA has been waiting a long time for this drastic amount of rainfall; only to be completely unprepared for it, especially when this specific dam was warned about this a decade ago

@planewire2153 7 лет назад

Then It said we get this kind of rain every 5 years it's no big deal

@DarthVantos 7 лет назад

Southern CA has been needing this, not the northern mountain ranges.

@mrxxbrian 7 лет назад

DarthVantos SoCa gets a good portion of their water from NorCal as well

@russg1801 7 лет назад

If by a 'good portion' of its water, you mean ALL of it, you are correct. No way tens of millions of people can live in a desert, except with massively expensive water diversion programs. Water taken from the Sierra Nevada has to be PUMPED over another mountain range to get to LaLaLand; that requires massive amounts of electricity to run those pumping stations. If you thought it just flowed 'downhill' you were mistaken. There are mountains in the way!

@daemn42 7 лет назад

Little bit of trivia. 1/5th of all the electrical power in California is used to pump water from where it's collected to where where it's used.

@Augvald 7 лет назад

They warned about that the dam could collapse 12 years ago. Why is nothing done, until it's to late?

@FortuneZer0 7 лет назад

People dont care when they get blowjobs or recieve two peace nobel prizes for bombing the middle east.

@TeamZelid 7 лет назад

FortuneZero Nice try there, nice try baiting

@FortuneZer0 7 лет назад

TeamZelid Thank you. I even included a President most of these darstardly millenials dont even recognize or even remember. But yes, when was the last time the US truly created new infrastructure? Under Eisenhower? It has been a criminal negligence letting all of that slowly fall apart.

@tylerjoyner9865 7 лет назад

Augvald money. i hate it

@Dhujdic 7 лет назад

Because its California?

@MySnowball14 7 лет назад

i had to evacuate from my house bc of this but i'm back now i hope to stay

@nayslayerz7729 7 лет назад

u must prepare to leave soon..don't get comfortable for destruction is imminent..you've only been bought time to prepare. Time is up, trust in YAHAWASHI. My suggestion is head toward standing rock, or toward moutain area asap

@WitcherStarcourge 7 лет назад

MySnowball14 hopefully nothing else happens and you're able to stay there. be safe.

@Timetryp 7 лет назад

This situation is in no way stabilized - they allowed people back in more on political motivations than safety concerns. I'd get out and see what happens - sue the State for dislocation costs.

@msjanegrey 7 лет назад

as far as i understood there is an evacuation warning, not an evacuation order now.

@72Yonatan 7 лет назад

Have all your important documents and photos copied or stored with relatives or friends in another county out of flood peril. Also have a full tank of fuel every night and map an escape route and have bags packed with medical supplies and water and whatever light snacks and blankets are needed to stay in a shelter. God save you and your family from harm.

@FortuneZer0 7 лет назад

Ah that where all those liberal tears went! All that salt water must not be good for the environment.

@SirGherro 7 лет назад

You're pretty fucking stupid if you actually think this, regardless of your political standing.

@FortuneZer0 7 лет назад

Gherro Thank you for quality testing, swallowing the bait and going around insulting people unprovoked. Have a nice day.

@myriadmaestro572 7 лет назад

Look, I am not fond of Liberal ideology either, but I would never wish death on this major a scale upon my political opponents. Discussion is the key here my friend, not condemnation.

@FortuneZer0 7 лет назад

Indeed, but I still dont see any link between my bait and wishing death in a major scale. It being saltwater maybe?

@myriadmaestro572 7 лет назад

Ah, it was a joke to provoke. I probably should have known that. :I

@NOSTIXVASQUEZ 7 лет назад

This must be major if National Geographic already taking coverage of this

@bonlives685 5 лет назад

It seems strange this popping up in my recommended! (2017 video) especially when current issues with same dam (Oroville?) and don't forget recent weather conditions? I don't believe in coincidences! take care all & prepare?

@jeffreythomson3958 7 лет назад

At last, a voice of authority on the subject.

@likahmac 7 лет назад

damn it I ask to much water, be safe workers

@RawSauce338 7 лет назад

terrifyingly beautiful shots

@susenomps5412 7 лет назад

I live about 2.5 miles from the spill way, I think that if the spillway gets more eroded, the other half of the spillway will slide down

@Timetryp 7 лет назад

You are probably right - bail out!

@barrywhite1821 7 лет назад

Colby Johns where's the Re-Bar in the spillway?!

@samus1421 7 лет назад

great ominous music.

@randomuser4014 7 лет назад

samus1421 i know try to scare us lol

@nesseihtgnay9419 7 лет назад

i live in fresno CA. my uncle lives in Oroville. and my little brother is in the national guard. sent to the dame for resue.

@Timetryp 7 лет назад

Shoot the looters.

@Patrick5 7 лет назад

like they had a choice to use the emergency spillway....

@briantravelman 7 лет назад

Damn. National Geographic. One plus to this is when I travel now I won't have to deal with, "Oroville? Where's that?" The whole world knows about us now.

@roc-r6x 7 лет назад

So much for trying to save the little fishes

@einarreitz3571 4 года назад

California State employees in charge of MILLIONS of acre feet of water behind a earthen dam.....What could possibly go wrong!

@alphasxsignal 7 лет назад

Why wasn't the water let out long time ago when they saw all this rain coming.

@dothedeed 7 лет назад

because they're in a drought and wanted to keep as much as possible

@gamerguy8970 7 лет назад

dothedeed we does it meN for us now is all that water wasted

@Timetryp 7 лет назад

The main spillway is eroding at a rapid rate, and there is no way they can stop that. It may erode back to the dam face, then it is catastrophic failure!

@fidelchavez8782 7 лет назад

Damn the system is wrecked

@cole2680 7 лет назад

well thats what u get when you ignore something for 5 years lololol

@DelbertStinkfester 7 лет назад

I hope you get it on video when it finally breaks

@donnas7240 7 лет назад

What's wrong with California? No rain for months now too much rain? Geez

@randomuser4014 7 лет назад

Donna S we're bipolar with weather lol

@-.._.-_...-_.._-..__..._.-.-.- 7 лет назад

It's happening all over the world.

@queefreak666 7 лет назад

We can also thank the National Weather Service and agencies like them for forecasting a dry La Nina weather pattern for this season. How in the world does the weather forecasting agencies get things so wrong in 2016?

@philup6274 7 лет назад

witness the beginning of the water wars in California.

@Timetryp 7 лет назад

Yep - it'll make the drought look like a picnic.

@hyperwebbing 7 лет назад

Just get the Terminator in there to fix it.

@yggdrasil9039 7 лет назад

There will be some serious erosion to the overall structure from this incident. I would imagine that the earth below the emergency spillway is now completely sodden through, and this will compromise its structural integrity. Even if they rebuild the concrete spillway perfectly, the earth on the downward side of the dam has been seriously eroded. Classic case of spending a bit of money before on making sure the spillways were working fine in the event of an emergency, and now it would be funny if they had to rebuild the entire dam just because they couldn't afford to spend some money making sure that all bases were covered. Pretty sure the moral to that story is the sort of thing your parents teach you when you are about 4 years old.

@Someonesaidthis 5 лет назад

JUST FYI, the Camp/Paradise fire has reached lake Oroville..

@sactownism 6 лет назад

I'm not an expert, but why wait till the very last minute to release water. This could have been avoided

@mariadaluzmoutinho5701 5 лет назад

Neste momento Califórnia vive um drama do fogo ... a água as duas forças destruidoras .. Os extremos são um combate em que a clepsidra ...e descoberta feito de matéria em horas de terra e areia...Os desastres acontecem e quando o homem na demora perde ...a calamidade acontece!! É triste...

@richierich6033 7 лет назад

Omg right when we are exiting the drought

@Lenny-kt2th 7 лет назад

Magnifiscent... that power of nature! And then to think that 15,000 dams in the USA have already been classified as "high hazard"... Guess the taxes are going to go up to pay for making them safe again...

@susenomps5412 7 лет назад

I live under it to in front of the dwr

@WIZARDWERX 7 лет назад

somebody thought they could play with mother nature

@waltherstealth9400 7 лет назад

I live near here! Hate it!

@azizadam3819 7 лет назад

WaltherStealth move to Seattle it rains every 10 minute

@kmiller259 7 лет назад

So leave...

@JjoshD 7 лет назад

flow like water, give a damn bout a dam - Cyhi the prynce

@KilLahCali559 7 лет назад

Just when California was getting out of a drought this shit happens lol just our luck

@Timetryp 7 лет назад

If it breaks, California is screwed.

@fangirlcupcake4199 7 лет назад

this seems pretty...dam Sireous

@Justyburger 7 лет назад

Environmental disaster??? Yes but what about human lives? Or is that not so important?

@Hassanhahahahah 7 лет назад

now canada will come in and give them millions of liters of water

@tbrosseuk1843 7 лет назад

Before the Dams "Shasta ,Oroville, Butte, etc " were built most of the surrounding land was flood plain. When you reclaim flood plain for building , eventually nature will take over and return things to their natural state. One can blame anyone they choose however if you buy a home on reclaimed land you should expect for something to eventually go wrong. California law insures that you know you are living on a flood plain and that you are offered flood insurance. With more money and land going to housing every year and less going to infrastructure and agriculture of course we have problems. California is a huge state. It is extremely difficult for the government to change things if the larger portion of the voters in the cities sway the vote toward inner city needs rather than rural and agro infrastructure. Then we have people at the federal level denying funds from the government because our police force has not the funding or officers to be immigration officers as well as police officers. Yes people in charge were warned that repairs needed to be made and still need to be. Where do you suggest we get the man power and money to fix everything that is broken here? We Californians have been living from pillar to post for many years now. If you have a feasible solution, let's hear it!

@seongchoi6354 7 лет назад

how about that warning from 12 years ago?

@Timetryp 7 лет назад

Heads will roll - they didn't want to spend the money.

@benjaminsalcedo8635 2 года назад

what about all the snow that melts ? i don't get it . now africa is getting water ? i don't understand .

@maimayer9687 7 лет назад

when nature fights back no one wins......duhh

@maxyoung3498 7 лет назад

Atleast theres a rainbow?

@mailemcdevitt7930 3 года назад

Why doesn't california do what japan has done and build massive aquafers

@dannyg5400 7 лет назад

Amazing that too much water could mean not enough water for everyone. If people would wake up, stop relying on the state, and start catching water, they might be alright. Oh yeah, they made that illegal there, never mind.

@dylan1368 7 лет назад

@alicen348 7 лет назад

is this in southern cali. or nothern cali.

@Anna-ql9gl 7 лет назад

NorCal

@Timetryp 7 лет назад

The drainage from a dam break apparently will reach the San Francisco Bay.

@thenipple007 5 лет назад

Beyonce's Grammy ritual caused this. 🤧

@xzysyndrome 7 лет назад

Nat Geo hopping aboard the doomsday alarmist train. How the mighty fall. Shameful.

@perrysims3320 5 лет назад

Visit the Blancolirio Channel on You Tube for the very best reporting on the renovations that upgraded the dam.

@yepyep248 7 лет назад

Not seeing any comments about fukushima !! ignorance is bliss eh ! i know there has been a media wipe out but come on America wake up !!!!!!!!!

@jamesfra1311 7 лет назад

Karma.

@pietroplastina2786 5 лет назад

IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT PROTECTION IS IN PLACE THE ALMIGHTY IS IN CHARGE OF THE WEATHER.DESPITE MANS ACTIONS. GODS WORD OF ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER THAN MANS WORDS OR ACTIONS. GOD HELP THE USA WHEN THEY REPENT OR CHANGE!