EVACUATION ORDER GIVEN !!! THREE ENTIRE COUNTIES IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA FACE FLOODING DISASTER FROM IMPENDING DAM FAILURE

EVACUATION ORDER GIVEN !!!

Citizens in Oroville, California and the counties surrounding it have been ordered to Evacuate their homes immediately, because a component of the Oroville Dam – the tallest Dam in the U.S. — is suffering major structural collapse.  Flood waters will wipe out the area within hours.  

Residents of Oroville are urged to take Highway 99 or 130 toward Sacramento and get out as fast as they can.

Structural failure of the Auxiliary Overflow Barrier is expected within the hour.  Once that structure collapses, upwards of two cubic MILES of water will be released.

Officials in northern California ordered residents near the Oroville Dam to evacuate the area Sunday after an emergency spillway severely eroded. 

The California Department of Water Resources said that the emergency spillway could fail within an hour, unleashing uncontrolled flood waters from Lake Oroville.

People in downstream areas need to leave the area immediately, the department said.

 

EMERGENCY EVACUATION: Auxiliary spillway at Oroville Dam predicted to fail within the next hour. Oroville residents evacuate northward.

— CA – DWR (@CA_DWR) February 13, 2017

 

Counties/cities near Lake Oroville area issue evacuation orders.

— CA – DWR (@CA_DWR) February 13, 2017

 

SUTTER/BUTTE COUNTY: Gridley, Live Oak, Yuba City included in evacuation alert.

— Caltrans District 3 (@CaltransDist3) February 13, 2017

 

City Government Tells Citizens to GET OUT

City of Yuba City strongly recommends an evacuation of all residents immediately. Travel options are as follows:… https://t.co/rBM3IpL0qx

— YubaCityCalifornia (@YubaCityCA) February 13, 2017

 

SECOND COUNTY ORDERS FULL EVACUATION

ALERT!!!! Evacuation ordered for all Yuba County on the valley floor. Travel safely. https://t.co/BrRpXUJiX5

— Yuba County (@YubaCounty) February 13, 2017

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Maps of Evacuation Zones – All Persons Should LEAVE IMMEDIATELY

 

Residents of Oroville, a town of 16,000 people, should head north toward Chico, and other cities should follow orders from their local law enforcement agencies, the Butte County Sheriff's office said.

The Yuba County Office of Emergency Services asked residents in the valley floor, including Marysville, a city of 12,000 people, to evacuate and take routes to the east, south, or west and avoid traveling north toward Oroville.

The California Department of Water Resources said it was releasing as much as 100,000 cubic feet per second from the main, heavily damaged spillway to try to drain the lake.

Department of Water Resources spokesman Kevin Dossey told the Sacramento Bee the emergency spillway was rated to handle 250,000 cubic feet per second, but it began to show weakness Sunday at a small fraction of that. Flows through the spillway peaked at 12,600 cubic feet per second at 1 a.m. Sunday and were down to 8,000 cubic feet per second by midday.

Water began flowing over the emergency spillway at the dam on Saturday after heavy rainfall damaged the main spillway.

Unexpected erosion chewed through the main spillway earlier this week, sending chunks of concrete flying and creating a 200-foot-long, 30-foot-deep hole that continues growing. Engineers don't know what caused the cave-in, but Chris Orrock, a spokesman for the state Department of Water Resources, said it appears the dam's main spillway has stopped crumbling even though it's being used for water releases.

About 150 miles northeast of San Francisco, Lake Oroville is one of California's largest man-made lakes, and the 770-foot-tall Oroville Dam is the nation's tallest. The lake is a central piece of California's government-run water delivery network, supplying water for agriculture in the Central Valley and residents and businesses in Southern California.

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