there. i will tell you going forward they ll spend $725 million on this fixing the emergency spillway and the main spillway. reporter: the main spillway is being used to lower the water level another 50 feet at least. take a look at drone video taken by state water officials as they look to boost capacity ahead of the next round of wet weather moving in on thursday. not to mention future storms and the snow runoff come spring. nearly 190,000 evacuees and hotels and shelters are wondering when they will get to go home. county sheriff said there is no longer an imminent threat of that emergency spillway collapsing. they want to boost capacity ahead of the next round of wetw. until that spill way is shored up and being structurally sound, melissa, mandatory evacuation order will remain in effect.
be, this nightmare scenario for the folks out there. it would have been last night, and when the water was flowing over the top of the emergency spill way, it was very rapidly eroding below the spill way, and coming back underneath the foundation, the concrete foundation for that spill way. have that erosion continued. and the emergency spill way give way, it s 30 feet high, you would have a 30 foot wall of water rushing down the canyon immediately below the zam is oroville, the town of oroville, the water would have been 100 feet deep within a matter of an hour. and further down the river in marysville and uga city, not as deep, but just as dangerous.
as you know, congressman environmental groups advised the dam needed upgrades. could that all have been avoided? you re an expert in this area. you served as a deputy u.s. interior during the clinton administration? it could have and it should have, but it didn t happen. for reasons that are apparently the water contractors, the current county water district and others didn t want to pay. and they didn t want to be told how to build a spill way. it turns out the club was quite correct. should the spill way ever be used there would be serious down stream sediment harming the fisheries and quite possibly
way to shore up that spill way. we have a lot of water here in the reservoir, it s dropped a foot, maybe a little more than that over the last couple hours as the inflow has subsided and the outflow is around 100,000 cubic feet per second. imminent no. potential yes. that spill way is badly damaged, the foundation is eroded as a result of the water coming over the top of the top of the emergency spill way. the main spill way remains degraded with the huge hole in the middle of it. we re going to be hopeful, i do have 200,000 of my constituents that are no longer in their homes in various shelters scattered around northern california. it s a very tense but we re going to be hopeful here. that spill way is part of that dam. what would your greatest fear
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