BULLETIN – EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Sacramento CA
435 PM PST SUN FEB 12 2017
The National Weather Service in Sacramento has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for… A Dam Failure in… South central Butte County in northern California…
* Until 415 PM PST Monday
* At 419 PM PST, Dam operators reported A hazardous situation is developing with the Oroville Dam auxiliary spillway. Operation of the auxiliary spillway has lead to severe erosion that could lead to a failure of the structure. Failure of the auxiliary spillway structure will result in an uncontrolled release of flood waters from Lake Oroville.
In response to this developing situation, DWR is increasing water releases to 100,000 cubic feet per second.
Immediate evacuation from the low levels of Oroville areas downstream is ordered. From Oroville to Gridley…low level areas around the Feather River will experience rapid river rises.
This is not a Drill. This is not a Drill. Repeat this is not a drill.
* Locations impacted include… Oroville, Palermo, Gridley, Thermalito, South Oroville, Oroville Dam, Oroville East and Wyandotte.
On 2/9/2017 10:50 PM, AquAlliance wrote:
AquAlliance
Emergency News
Any of you who are in Oroville or south or west of it prepare for an emergency and please help neighbors who have limited resources. Water coming into Oroville Reservoir is so massive and the spillway so damaged that it will be forced out the so-called emergency spillway tonight, which has never been tried before (down a hillside of trees, no cement). Hours ago the inflow was approximately 185,000 cfs, and outflows 41,602 cfs. Even with the storm winding down, the warm temperatures will melt significant snow. Below are phone numbers and web sites of county offices of emergency services.
Butte County Office of Emergency Services – 538-7373 and http://www.buttecounty.net/oem/EmergencyEvents.aspx
Sutter County Office of Emergency Services – 822-4575 and https://www.co.sutter.ca.us/doc/government/depts/cs/es/cs_es_home
Yuba County Office of Emergency Services – 749-7520 and http://www.co.yuba.ca.us/departments/oes/
Photo illustrates the crater in the spillway: