The latest storm has moved out of NorCal and the damkeepers managed to keep Oroville Dam from collapsing --
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/resapp/resDetailOrig.action?resid=ORO
One point that has not been made in the news reports is that the normal way to control the lake's level is through the powerhouse at the bottom of the main body of the dam. Oroville was built as a bidrectional pumped-storage facility, in which water is let out of the dam spinning the turbines and generators when electric demand is high, and then when supply exceeds demand water can be pumped back up into the lake to use later. To facilitate this, the bed of the Feather River was altered into a flat channel from the powerhouse outlet almost to Oroville city mints, where the water is diverted into the basins dug out in the hydraulic-mining debris, called the Thermalito Forebay. The earth and rock excavated from the basins was used to build the main body of the dam, transported up by a purpose-built railway.
However, one of the side-effects of the partial collapse of the main spillway is that a lot of loose material - sand, rocks, trees, asphalt and concrete - was washed down into the powerhouse channel, effectively shutting it off from the Forebay and thus keeping the powerhouse out of action. Because of that, the lake will not get below the level of the spillway gates (see graphic linked above) until the channel is cleared, and that clearing cannot be done until the spillway stops spilling.
"That's some catch, that Catch-22."
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