Time since the river or the lake level has gone down below that spill way that caused so much trouble. As long as it doesnt go back up to there things should be okay. I want to show you something. We are in downtown oroville and they are trying to keep the Feather River from getting higher. Within its banks and out of the normal flood planes this is acceptable flow. What they had earlier was greater. About a third greater and they couldnt allow that to continue so they opened up the full throttle so to speak on the water they were letting out despite the damage at the bottom of the spill way. But what they are really trying to do at this point in time is just get a handle on all of this. Get the river level down so that the im sorry the lake level down so there isnt a problem with it as more rain comes in. In fact here is what officials had to say. There is no water that is flowing over the emergency spill way at this time. Thats an important thing. Because our primary goal is to ensur
Water at the rate of 100,000 cubic feet per second. Lake oroville is a few feet below the spillway eroding when the water topped it yesterdays. 37,000 cubic feet of water running in the lake it is 1063 feet a second out of thelake. Our objective is to lower the lake level by fifty feet to prepare for future inflow of water due to storms and precipitation. Now this may take awhile because officials must monitor for erosion or any other change to spell trouble. Repairs to stabilize the situation could take awhile as officials decide exactly how to do it. Recently helicopters have been placing what appear to be sand bags and in reality are bags of large bolders and hauling the rocks to other locations. Where this takes depends on the dynamics and it could be 10 to 15 days or longer. But our infrastructure is holding up well even though it is damaged. Having heard that, many evacuees are bewildered when they hear there. Though look at how unusual it is. These county sheriffs are looking an
This is business as usual in orville. No business. There are few places opened. Very few people running around. Not a complete ghost town but is one that is hard to find something if you need gas or something, you you would have to take a look. For the people not here there situation is wait, worry and wonder and see something happen. The the evacuation is in effect. The decision to release the evacuation and allow people to return to the area is equally difficult decision to make. The water has been released at one hundred cubic feet per second. Lake oroville dam was beneath the spillway since yesterday and since the water is still running in the lake, the net change is only 63,000 cubic feet per second going out of the lake. Our objective is to lower the lake level by fifty feet in order to prepare for future inflow of water due to storms and precipitation. Officials must continue to monitor for erosion or any other change to spell trouble. Repairs could take awhile as officials deci
Evacuation centers, but we begin with Jana Katsuyama and the latest on the efforts to lower the lakes to prevent erosion on the problematic emergency spillway. Jana . Reporter julie and frank, Officials Say they have people monitoring the dam 24 7 right now both on the ground and with the help of drones. To give you a perspective we want to show you the dam right here and next to it is a main spillway, which you can see there is a damaged area right here. That is where the water is going off the concrete lining. The biggest concern though is the area of the emergency spillway and that is right in this area for the first time in history it was used on sunday leading to this massive erosion you could see here in the brown area. That is the cause for a concern. Because it could still cause this concrete edge right on the edge of the reservoir to collapse. Reporter daylight brought a ray of hope, the crisis of catastrophic flooding temporarily put on pause. There is no water flowing over t
Good morning. Welcome back to mornings on 2. Our coverage continues this morning on the major issues at the spillway around the orrville. Evacuation orders are still in place for more than 180,000 People Living below lake or are rville. The city itself looks like a ghost town with only a few cars in the downtown area. Video of people as they gather supplies as they have to hunker down for at least a week if not longer. That market he was open getting a lot of business from people going out of orrville. Some are staying. Wow. Thank you for joining us. Welcome back. Its tuesday. Its february 14th. Im dave clark. Good morning. Its 4 32. We will check in with steve. Talk about how much rain is headed our way. Most of itll be in Southern California but they could get up to ten inches of rain up there in the next week. In the orrville. This is an ongoing issue. Whether or not they get rain. They have a snow pack up there that has to go somewhere. Hopefully not to fast to soon. Lake levels cu