Oroville 10 March "What's Under The Oroville Dam?"
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- Опубліковано 19 лип 2024
- Part 1 of a detailed description of the Hyatt Power Plant and the River Valve Outlet System at the Oroville Dam.
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Another great report. I like how you explained all of the water exits from the lake through the dam system. The review of the powerplant was well done. It is refreshing to see an organized, informative report, without guessing, panic and hype. You are the go-to source for real information about the Oroville Dam. You have a lot of supporters, and I am pleased to add my name to that list. I look forward to your next update.
Thanks Jim!
What he said. You present like a competent engineer, which is rare in engineering these days.
I subscribed because I am not an engineer but I can understand his explanations.
Totally agree with Jim! Well explained, Juan, in laymen's terms, so much appreciated!
scarletfluerr me too!
Monsieur Blancolirio, your comments and videos are for sure the best concerning the events of Oroville dam, merci beaucoup from France !
have watched so many shows about how dams work. First time somebody tried to explain the inside and how it all works. Wish this was a regular episode on tv about all dams. ty and gj
I Just wanted to say "THANK YOU" for all your work on reporting what is going on at Oroville Dam. You do a awesome job and I have been listening to your daily reports for about 2 weeks. Thanks.
One correction. Diversion tunnel #1 outlet is always flooded. It's floor at outlet is at 182ft elevation so it's top is around 216ft which is beneath the normal 225ft water level. The center line of tunnel #2 is exactly 225ft elevation from RVOS valves to outlet, and the water level in the Thermolito Diversion Pool is normally regulated to 225ft elevation. When the debris dam raised the level 20+ feet it flooded tunnel #2 which causes a vacuum (cavitation) to be formed if you try to move any significant water through the RVOS or turbine outlets.
daemn42 Thanks Daemn! Got it.
About a year ago I watched this vid and was very impressed at your research and presentation... I watched it again today and was even more impressed. Juan, you are a consummate researcher, reporter and conveyer of information. You are a gift to the tapestry that forms the internet; even more so a gift to those of us who are observers. Thank you, sir, for your efforts and integrity.
This series of videos is most welcomed, good to see that aside from your day job that you share this with us.
Clear and very easy to understand. I love to continue to learn about new things. Thank you Blancolirio
Juan.... You are doing a great job reporting the facts as you gather them without any spin. I am enjoying your updates on this event at the Oroville Dam... I am sure most people have no idea of the scale of this project and the complexity of repairing the damage done to the spillways. Not to mention the $$$$$. Thanks again for keeping us "DAM GEEKS" informed!!!
PS... I look forward to your next motorcycle tour around the affected area to see how things are fairing. Cool Bike by the way!
Hi, I'm from England. I'v been watching this from the start and by far you are the best one giving news out, you are the first name I look for to see how it going along. Thank You for being a honest person on here and not asking for money , just letting it no as it is. Again thank You please keep us updated.
I'd like to thank you for taking the time to research and compile these videos, and presenting them in a no nonsense, factual way.
As soon as I saw the initial event on the news, I've been very interested in this as a civil engineering project.
It is a massive repair job and one that has many layers of complexity.
The commenters here who think they're just making it up as they go have no idea what will be going on in the background. There will have been many specialist engineering firms working crazy hours coming up with temporary and permanent solutions, as well as mobilisation of a vast number of personnel and equipment.
Anyone who thinks that can be done without a major effort is delusional.
What impresses me the most is the speed at which they've made it all happen, they've already removed about half of the debris field- a huge undertaking in itself!
One of the best, most informative and honest pieces I have EVER seen on the Internet. In Kentucky we have several power generating dams and many flood control reservoirs. This is interesting to me and your presentation with hard facts and data makes for a riveting view. Thank you.
Gerard Johnson Thanks Gerard!
Sir- You are doing an awesome job on updates! I found your channel by "happenstance". I live in Tennessee, but I am interested in the Oroville dam. Thank you for your very "astute" reports. God willing, this is a huge "learning" exercise...
Nothing like the demeanor of a good pilot to analyse calmly in hairy situations. Thanks you are a hoot to follow on this.
Thank goodness there's ONE honest, intelligent person in the USA reporting on this situation - YOU!. . . . Keep up the good work.
An excellent presentation. Very comprehensive and simple-ish to understand while having such a complicated subject. Gotta love some Turtles!!
Great report series Mr. Browne...I'm fascinated by the scale as it's way off from any usual views one gets in general life. I also had no idea of the complexity involved in the components from reservoir to power plant to river system...good stuff thanks.
I hope someone gives you a job in this sort of thing, because you have become a legitimate news source of news in this topic. Good on ya!
just ask my wife...lol
or maybe he just live in close proximity to the dam ...was my assumption
Zeinzu Androy Please check your likes here. Nice comment agreed by many.
Ears To You every comment...! Thanks Ears!
You put those "pretty faces" they have on the news services to shame who know nothing but read from a teleprompter.
Thank you, Juan, for your excellent presentations.
I'm in upstate New York. You got me hooked on info on a dam 2500 miles away. Sustained interest because of your explanations.
Thank-you for all your background details . It has helped to put the pieces of the jigsaw in place. Thanks for all your hard work and time spent in keeping us abreast of the progress being made.
I have learned so much from your videos Juan. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and analysis.
Thanks for the updates Juan.
I'm uncertain why I'm watching your videos. But I must say, you have a fabulous presentation, and you explain yourself very well.
Due to your great informational reports and my chats with Kasey McGill , I may become "The Biggest Dam Know-It-All " in my neighborhood. Thank you again for your updates. Still in Brazil I see.
Got it, it's all important. Peeweethepinstriper has the views I was looking for, how the water level on the backside looks. Thanks for being one of three excellent sources for information on the dam.
You are by far giving the best information on the dam and the removal of all the debris. Looking forward to your next video, please keep up your great work.
Mr. Blancolirio, What a great public service you are doing with these detailed videos! Keep it up!
You sir are my source for news about this dam. I don'y know what you have done before today but you sir are very attention oriented and must have been a journalist in a past carreer.
Great work and keep doing what you do so well.
Juan browne is a very intelligent man just to keep track of this problem from the onset. I realized it from the very beginning when I turned to you tube since I could not make head or tail from the tv reports. Juan Browne made immediate sense to me, a lay person, and followed him since. his stile is just perfect to explain complex situations. He is not boring but very pleasant without overpowering his viewers. I wish the best to him and his wonderful family.
You are the best resource for information on the dam and related issues thank you!
Excellent job of reporting. Thank you for all of your efforts.
That opening 90 seconds is like the golf commentator version of earth moving.
yogaplaneresearchgroup Haa! I was thinking about that...LOL!!! Great analogy....
Dude your coverage of this is worthy of whatever youtube awards there are. Really great. Just the facts, no stupid conspiracy BS. Great job. Love it.
Oh, I see now --it was the exhaust ports to the power plant that you were talking about a few videos ago, which I could not make any sense of. These visuals and your explanation now make way more sense to me....somewhat.....thanks for that....
Please keep these updates coming. Best source to see the latest up there
Not sure if I told you this before, but great reporting! My dad was a mechanical engineer, and had to inspect the Grand Coulee. We find your videos of high interest. Thanks for your work.
Excellent reporting! Thanks!
A bit of a drama knowing they need to fire up the spillway again. Nailbiter! A few more weeks of potential additional rain / snow too!
Great reporting and good on you for staying the course and keeping us informed all this time. Also a great job the crew is doing too, I hope it settles down for everyone downstream. Keep up the great work.
Great detailed work Jaun. What a complex system explained very well. Thanks Jaun , keep up the great work. Stay safe and cheers.
Another Thx to Juan to create a very clear and informative Video. Thumps up :-)
Juan, thank you for your excellent work. There is so much sensational and misleading or just false information on UA-cam. I have been relying on your reporting to get an accurate understanding on the cleanup progress. Keep up the good work.
So I first found your channel due to your Rally Raid conversion project (I ride a '91 XL600V Transalp)
Then I find you have a keen interest in classic aircraft (I fly gliders but love classical aircraft, too)
And now you're doing some 1st class reporting on an interesting topic that otherwise only got shrill scaremongering
Thanks Man! you're the right stuff! :-)
Thanks Pete!
Peter Jakobs : yes he is. i could not make sense out of the tv report until I hit his channel
looks good! looks like no question of the damn being secure! you did a good of keeping those directly affected from being inordinately alarmed.
Great reporting and now its my go to stop for information, just keep us up to date thanks. AMDG
Thank you for your thorough and detail reporting. your updates are the best.
Watching from the UK. love your updates
another great report. thanks for doing this.
Excellent and informative video. Many thanks for your efforts to keep the public abreast of this!
Very informative. Love watching these videos! Always facts without added speculation about things you don't know.
You are a true hero man! Keep up that good work. love it! :-)
From Sweden, with relatives "over there"
Again another informative video from you, which I follow with interest even though I from the UK. Thank you and keep up the good work.
Juan, great videos. Just to clarify, the maximum operating level of the Oroville reservoir is 900 feet, but the spillway rim is actually at 901 feet. Also gas turbines, such as found on aircraft may "exhaust" their combustion products, but water wheels, such as the reaction turbines and pump-turbines in the Edward Hyatt Power Plant, "discharge" through a tailrace.
John Smith Thanks John!
Good factual reporting. Well done. Watching from South Africa on a daily basis since the start. Keep it up. So much BS out there. This is refreshing.
Thanks for the engineering background. Fascinating. Keep it up please.
Excellent information from the perspective of one guy with a background in Geology and Hydro-geology.
Watching the situation way down here in New Zealand. Thank you Sir for the clear explanations.
Regards, Greg.
Hi and thanks for another excellent, authoritative, non-contradictory report.
Sorry, I'm too skint to do the Patrion donation right now, but I really appreciate the quality of what you're doing.
You are excellent. Love your informative vids. Keep up the awesome reporting!!!
Dear Sir, Iwish to thank you for your very complete update.I always look forward to listen and learn .May God Bless you and give you the rewards that HE SEES FIT. Juan for President!!!! Grasias mucho hermanito
Thank you Juan for that detailed technical information. I'm curious about the continuation.
Thanks again for your updates, I really appreciate this hard work you are doing, thank you.
Hey Juan Brown I like your style! Well researched, well explained. Please keep up the Excellent reporting. Thank you!
Thank you, for your impeccable coverage... :)
That is the most informative video I have seen all through this problem Congrats I give you an A+ with extra credit. Wonderful work. It really lays out what is what. Just fantastic is all I can say.
fantastic video! you do an awesome job explaining things with what you have in front of you 👍 You're a great reporter 💏
Thank you for all the sweet info. Your videos have gotten so good. You have been answering my ?s with only slight delays, i.e. geology, geography.
Thumbs up for Trampled by Turtles!
its all starting to make sense now….thank you
Amazing. Beautiful. Thank You so much for the work you do.
This video was especially interesting!!! Great job!! And thanks for the continuous updates!!
Very, very good research, excellent explanation; you master the subject as if you were a DWR's specialist. Congratulations!
Funny, I was waiting for you to click your pen on the screen, then you made the comment. LOL! I appreciate your professionalism, thank you!!!
Here's a tidbit of information for those of us who like to crunch numbers. Since 1776, the USA has been in existence about 88,000 days. Most don't realize that there are about 84,000 dams in the USA. That means there was almost 1 dam per day being commissioned and built since we became an independent nation. A significant number of those dams are probably simple weirs that serve no purpose other than making a small lake, but they are classed as dams anyway.
Top of the emergency spillway is at elevation 901', not 900'. See cross section published online.
Note in new DWR picture with tilted scaffold there are sliding survey markers added on sidewall just upstream from the current spillway end. This will tell them if that last section is tilting downstream when the flow restarts. Also note that this appears to be an expansion joint that is both in the side wall & slab. They are also drilling into the slab, probably to grout any voids & better anchor the spillway to the foundation rock. This is where DWR has drawn its final spillway battle line. ¡Buena suerte!
Very good and understandable presentation. Thank you.
very well thought out and presented.. and even more props you doing this from spain... so thank you and great info
Great scott.. finally a real reporter ..Thanks heaps
Thank you Juan for the continuing info.
I look forward to the "pay me now or pay me later" hind sight arguments comparing cost of the current "bucket brigade" clean-up vs. adequate maintenance (I see missed opportunities in 2005) and perhaps inadequate 1950's design goals.
You don't have to be a Dam surgeon ( and I am not) to follow the crest of the dam and wonder why the the designers left a low spot on the thing and labeled it an emergency spillway when as a matter of actual fact it is the most probable location for failure.
In an earlier installment you pointed out Table Mountain. After the dam dust settles I'd love to hear more about it.
I'm a California native and have passed by the region often over the years on the way to the foothills and beyond.
Thanks, Ron
Good job Juan, as usual. Much appreciated.
Thank you for the clear, understandable explanation. It is fascinating.
Excellent work Juan! Thank You!
Excellent update! Thanks.
Really like your videos. Thanks for posting.
I'm avidly following your updates from the UK. Well done.
Another great report! Thanks Juan!
Thanks for showing how it works. I was wondering where the pump station was and how it works.
Very well explained, thank you!
excellent research, and video as always.
Solid, well-researched information. Your video reports are a welcome oasis in the desert of "reality" media.
Nice informational video on this worrisome issue...Thank you!
Very informative Juan. Thank you
Another fine video. But I did miss family coming and going in the background, and the Dr Seuss book nearby for reference. LOL!
This whole situation is going to go down in history as one of the most dramatic " dances " between nature and mankind. I have seen examples of water draw-downs done by using a siphon technique. Large diameter pipes could be used in this technique. The siphon could be built having an inlet at the correct reservoir level. The pipes to carry the water could be built to discharge the water directly into the diversion pool without ever flowing down the landscape.
Sadly you can't (practically) siphon water over something more than about 30ft high, so even if you could concoct some outrageously enormous pipe setup, you'd have to wait until the reservoir was about to overflow before you could use it.
Yeah. At 32 ft water would simply draw down a vacuum at the top of the siphon and stop the flow, if it didn't simply collapse the tubing.
You got me so interested in this entire project that I found two videos of
interest. The first one is the “Construction
of the Lake Oroville Dam and Spillway Historic Film 53054MD and the tragic
documentary “1955 Sutter County Flood
Documentary film.
yep we reviewed those in an earlier update...thanks!
Those 6-foot river valve pipes sound like a fun water park ride!
wait till the next episode...'the ride of your life..."
"Kills you instantly or your money back"
700 x .434 = 300psi. That would be the pressure of the water going through those tunnels.When they opened them last time it almost killed the crew in the tunnel.
Amazing reporting. Thank you.
Best videos out there. Many thanks.
Excellent update. us on the east coast care about our brothers on the west coast. AMT based at MIA working for AMR . Looking forward to crossing paths with you .
Another excellent report...the folks commenting you should do investigative reporting are correct. Very good reports that are easy to understand....I look forward to the next one!
great video thanks for your hard work