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posted by mrpg on Wednesday April 03 2019, @05:40AM   Printer-friendly
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Water flows on California dam's spillway after 2017 crisis

Officials at the nation's tallest dam unleashed water down a rebuilt spillway Tuesday for the first time since it crumbled two years ago and drove hundreds of thousands of California residents from their homes over fears of catastrophic flooding.

Water flowed down the spillway and into the Feather River as storms this week and melting snowpack are expected to swell the lake behind Oroville Dam in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, said Molly White, principal engineer with the California Department of Water Resources.

The spring storms follow a very wet winter that coated the mountains with thick snowpack, which state experts will coincidentally measure Tuesday to determine the outlook for California's water supplies. Heavy winter rain and snow has left the state drought-free for the first time since December 2011, experts say.


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  • (Score: 1) by DECbot on Wednesday April 03 2019, @05:19PM (1 child)

    by DECbot (832) on Wednesday April 03 2019, @05:19PM (#824148) Journal

    Okay, true. However their make-believe doesn't consume tax dollars if they're following the principle of separation of church and state. Which is my complaint. Their make-believe is causing direct government interference into other people's lives. And I mean that to cut both ways.
     
    Right so. Perhaps I shouldn't rely on my phone's swipe features to write the word borders.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday April 03 2019, @05:44PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday April 03 2019, @05:44PM (#824165) Journal

    Every state in the Bible Belt consumes more in federal tax dollars than they contribute.

    It's us atheistic hellholes, likes California, that actually contribute to the tax base.