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[Stopdoor]

Wow.

 

[Lactose_Intolerant]

I love how it looks so tiny until they show a person or machine to give perspective.

Figuring that mass in terms of dump truck loads that must be hauled away, the average commercial dump truck can carry up to 18 cubic yards of material. That's 55,556 truck loads that will be hauled away and dumped near the dam.

wow

 

[Rommel]

Makes the up to $200 million dollar clean up and repair bill make sense.

Bet they wished they had forked out the money in 2005 when they first started noticing problems with it.

 

[LucidMomentum]

Makes the up to $200 million dollar clean up and repair bill make sense.

Bet they wished they had forked out the money in 2005 when they first started noticing problems with it.

Sadly when engineers and the people handling the money clash, it's hard for engineers to convince the budget planners that preventative maintenance is better than reactive maintenance.

Most of the time you get a "well, do we HAVE to do this RIGHT NOW? Can't it wait?"

Well yeah it can, but it's gonna look bad and cost way more to fix this later...

 

[Woorloog]

Makes the up to $200 million dollar clean up and repair bill make sense.

Bet they wished they had forked out the money in 2005 when they first started noticing problems with it.

Seems to me that a lot of time people are idiots. Preventative maintenance and other things are usually cheaper in the end. Belief in that status quo remains is utter idiocy.

 

[Norwegian Rudo]

Seems to me that a lot of time people are idiots. Preventative maintenance and other things are usually cheaper in the end. Belief in that status quo remains is utter idiocy.

I remember reading a story on L.A water pipes. They quoted a price of $1,3 billion over the next ten years to repair them, and for every ten years you waited the price would double.

 

[Sulik2]

That is an insane amount of erosion!

 

[HTupolev]

That is an insane amount of erosion!

Yes.

For several days, one hundred thousand cubic feet of water poured out of there every second.

 

[Rommel]

Great album showing the timeline of events

https://imgur.com/gallery/mpUge

 

[Robot Carnival]

holy shit!!! that's a ridiculous amount of erosion! the whole spillway is pretty much gone!!! seeing the water in action in that album thou, it's no surprise. that force is simply terrifying.

 

[Steejee]

Yikes.. I hadn't seen a picture of the main spillway's damage since the one of the original hole with the workers standing in it. I had no idea it had been ripped up so badly by the following flows. I don't know how you even begin to repair that. Guess they'll need to hope for a dry spell.

 

[mashoutposse]

Great album showing the timeline of events

https://imgur.com/gallery/mpUge

Thank you - a spectacular amount of damage.

 

[SkyOdin]

Yikes.. I hadn't seen a picture of the main spillway's damage since the one of the original hole with the workers standing in it. I had no idea it had been ripped up so badly by the following flows. I don't know how you even begin to repair that. Guess they'll need to hope for a dry spell.

We're pretty much going to have to wait until summer before they can take the time to fully repair the spillway. While the rainy season should end before too long, the snowmelt during spring will contniue to feed the river for quite a while.

 

[Got]

damn. the scale. and to have to engineer a fix. my god.

 

[Ray Wonder]

I can't wait to hear the estimated cost to fix that behemoth.

 

[Rommel]

I can't wait to hear the estimated cost to fix that behemoth.

They are projecting $250 million last I saw.

 

[Ray Wonder]

They are projecting $250 million last I saw.

That's way less than I was thinking.

 

[Schrade]

Great album showing the timeline of events

https://imgur.com/gallery/mpUge

Nice. Thanks for that.

There's a few other links too, might as well link it all in sequence:

First post
March 1st Update
March 2nd Update