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Fiore has received two awards for his work in new media from the National Cartoonists Society (2001, 2002), and in 2006 received The James Madison Freedom of Information Award from The Society of Professional Journalists.","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/fc4e2a612b15b67bad0c6f0e1db4ca9b?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twitter":"MarkFiore","facebook":null,"instagram":"https://www.instagram.com/markfiore/?hl=en","linkedin":null,"sites":[{"site":"arts","roles":["contributor"]},{"site":"news","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"futureofyou","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"science","roles":["editor"]}],"headData":{"title":"Mark Fiore | KQED","description":"KQED News 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href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11707591/plenty-of-emergency-shelters-but-no-temporary-housing-yet-as-butte-county-braces-for-rain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">faced criticism\u003c/a> following last year's fire season for how slowly the agency has brought in trailers and mobile homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 700 units of temporary housing for people displaced by the Camp Fire are planned for four as-yet-unfinished mobile home parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this rate, it may take as long to get the FEMA trailer parks up and running as the year and a half time frame the agency says people will be temporarily housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"FEMA is finally preparing to open the first mobile home park built for survivors of the deadliest and most destructive blaze in modern California history.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1556068416,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":6,"wordCount":114},"headData":{"title":"Meanwhile, 6 Months After the Camp Fire . . . | KQED","description":"FEMA is finally preparing to open the first mobile home park built for survivors of the deadliest and most destructive blaze in modern California history.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11742290 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11742290","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/04/23/meanwhile-6-months-after-the-camp-fire/","disqusTitle":"Meanwhile, 6 Months After the Camp Fire . . .","path":"/news/11742290/meanwhile-6-months-after-the-camp-fire","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Six months after the Camp Fire, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11742053/fema-prepares-first-mobile-home-park-nearly-six-months-after-the-camp-fire\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">preparing to open\u003c/a> the first mobile home park built for survivors of the deadliest and most destructive blaze in modern California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FEMA has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11707591/plenty-of-emergency-shelters-but-no-temporary-housing-yet-as-butte-county-braces-for-rain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">faced criticism\u003c/a> following last year's fire season for how slowly the agency has brought in trailers and mobile homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 700 units of temporary housing for people displaced by the Camp Fire are planned for four as-yet-unfinished mobile home parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this rate, it may take as long to get the FEMA trailer parks up and running as the year and a half time frame the agency says people will be temporarily housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv 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ready to open its first mobile home park for survivors of the blaze amid criticism that the agency didn’t bring in housing support more quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='camp-fire' label='Coverage of the Camp Fire']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's most destructive wildfire broke out just before dawn Nov. 8, burning nearly 14,000 homes in the communities of Paradise, Magalia and Concow, and killing 85 people. The blaze's destruction worsened an already difficult housing crisis in and around the nearby city of Chico: Butte County had some 2,000 homeless, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727080/tiny-homes-for-homeless-get-the-go-ahead-in-the-wake-of-camp-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR reported\u003c/a>, and many survivors were left scrambling for housing, with some crashing in Chico and others staying in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723656/camp-fire-survivors-must-leave-their-properties-where-will-they-go\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tents or RVs\u003c/a> on their scorched properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FEMA said Thursday it’s preparing to open the first of four mobile home parks devoted to Camp Fire survivors in the next few weeks; the agency plans for around 700 mobiles homes eventually. FEMA said last week that nearly 1,000 people need temporary housing in RVs and mobile homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first mobile home park, Rosewood Estates in Oroville, the units has 40 homes with one-, two- and three-bedroom units. On the inside, they're spare — with a couch, bed and a dresser. On the outside, workers cut lumber with buzz saws, drive Bobcats around and move lumber, all while country music plays in the background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People can live in the housing for up to 18 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Building out sites for mobile homes involves several state and local agencies, permissions, inspections and permits, said FEMA spokesman Michael Peacock in responding to criticism about how long it has taken the agency to bring in temporary housing for fire survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are working as fast as we possibly can to provide shelter to those survivors,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FEMA offers various types of housing aid, like trailers and rental assistance. Currently, FEMA is providing more than 7,400 people impacted by the Camp Fire with rental aid and offering temporary housing to some 260 families, according to agency data.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The blaze's destruction worsened an already difficult housing crisis in the area and many survivors were left scrambling for housing.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1556110978,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":11,"wordCount":351},"headData":{"title":"FEMA Prepares First Mobile Home Park, Nearly Six Months After the Camp Fire | KQED","description":"The blaze's destruction worsened an already difficult housing crisis in the area and many survivors were left scrambling for housing.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11742053 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11742053","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/04/23/fema-prepares-first-mobile-home-park-nearly-six-months-after-the-camp-fire/","disqusTitle":"FEMA Prepares First Mobile Home Park, Nearly Six Months After the Camp Fire","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2019/04/StrykerFEMATrailers.mp3","audioTrackLength":117,"path":"/news/11742053/fema-prepares-first-mobile-home-park-nearly-six-months-after-the-camp-fire","audioDuration":117000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Nearly six months after the Camp Fire erupted, FEMA is getting ready to open its first mobile home park for survivors of the blaze amid criticism that the agency didn’t bring in housing support more quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"camp-fire","label":"Coverage of the Camp Fire "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's most destructive wildfire broke out just before dawn Nov. 8, burning nearly 14,000 homes in the communities of Paradise, Magalia and Concow, and killing 85 people. The blaze's destruction worsened an already difficult housing crisis in and around the nearby city of Chico: Butte County had some 2,000 homeless, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727080/tiny-homes-for-homeless-get-the-go-ahead-in-the-wake-of-camp-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR reported\u003c/a>, and many survivors were left scrambling for housing, with some crashing in Chico and others staying in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723656/camp-fire-survivors-must-leave-their-properties-where-will-they-go\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tents or RVs\u003c/a> on their scorched properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FEMA said Thursday it’s preparing to open the first of four mobile home parks devoted to Camp Fire survivors in the next few weeks; the agency plans for around 700 mobiles homes eventually. FEMA said last week that nearly 1,000 people need temporary housing in RVs and mobile homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first mobile home park, Rosewood Estates in Oroville, the units has 40 homes with one-, two- and three-bedroom units. On the inside, they're spare — with a couch, bed and a dresser. On the outside, workers cut lumber with buzz saws, drive Bobcats around and move lumber, all while country music plays in the background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People can live in the housing for up to 18 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Building out sites for mobile homes involves several state and local agencies, permissions, inspections and permits, said FEMA spokesman Michael Peacock in responding to criticism about how long it has taken the agency to bring in temporary housing for fire survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are working as fast as we possibly can to provide shelter to those survivors,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FEMA offers various types of housing aid, like trailers and rental assistance. Currently, FEMA is providing more than 7,400 people impacted by the Camp Fire with rental aid and offering temporary housing to some 260 families, according to agency data.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11742053/fema-prepares-first-mobile-home-park-nearly-six-months-after-the-camp-fire","authors":["250"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8","news_13","news_356"],"tags":["news_24483","news_21917","news_4652","news_20536","news_17041"],"featImg":"news_11742332","label":"news_72"},"news_11709972":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11709972","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11709972","score":null,"sort":[1543967460000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-second-first-day-a-cartoon-sketchbook","title":"The Second First Day: A Cartoon Sketchbook","publishDate":1543967460,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Mark Fiore: Drawn to the Bay | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11710115\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/paradise_title_color_revise001-800x514.jpg\" alt=\"Paradise Elementary by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/paradise_title_color_revise001-800x514.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/paradise_title_color_revise001-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/paradise_title_color_revise001-1020x655.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/paradise_title_color_revise001-1200x771.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/paradise_title_color_revise001.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About three months after students attended their first day of school for the 2018-2019 school year, Paradise Elementary School and most of the surrounding town burned down in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/wildfires/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deadly Camp Fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, after being out of school for nearly a month following the wildfire, students attended their first day at the new Paradise Elementary School in Oroville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was there, sketching and listening while KQED's Michelle Wiley was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11709831/thousands-of-butte-county-students-return-to-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reporting\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students ran into the arms of their waiting teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11710117\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/01run_revise001-800x375.jpg\" alt=\"Running by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/01run_revise001.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/01run_revise001-160x75.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some students were driven to school by their parents, but most arrived on two school buses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11710119\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/02bus_revise001-800x606.jpg\" alt=\"Arriving by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/02bus_revise001.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/02bus_revise001-160x121.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/02bus_revise001-240x182.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/02bus_revise001-375x284.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/02bus_revise001-520x394.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school entrance was decorated with signs of support for the displaced students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11710014\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/03rocks_fin02-800x435.jpg\" alt=\"Rocks by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/03rocks_fin02.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/03rocks_fin02-160x87.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/03rocks_fin02-240x131.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/03rocks_fin02-375x204.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/03rocks_fin02-520x283.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were smiles, tears and hugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11709990\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/04doorway_fin01-800x526.jpg\" alt=\"Doorway by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/04doorway_fin01.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/04doorway_fin01-160x105.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11709991\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/10hugs_fin01-800x718.jpg\" alt=\"Hugs by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"718\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/10hugs_fin01.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/10hugs_fin01-160x144.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 500 elementary students enrolled in the Paradise Unified School District, only about half are returning to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many families have moved out of town, looking for jobs and places to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining students have now been reunited with their teachers at what used to be Bird Street Elementary School in Oroville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11710010\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/05birdstreet_fin02-800x342.jpg\" alt=\"Bird Street by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/05birdstreet_fin02.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/05birdstreet_fin02-160x68.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children seemed to make the most of their new situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11710007\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/06flash_fin02-800x417.jpg\" alt=\"Flash by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/06flash_fin02.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/06flash_fin02-160x83.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers and staff welcomed students, while some parents had hushed conversations about the recent events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11710018\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/07welcome_fin01-800x807.jpg\" alt=\"Welcome Back by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"807\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/07welcome_fin01-800x807.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/07welcome_fin01-160x161.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/07welcome_fin01-1020x1029.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/07welcome_fin01-1190x1200.jpg 1190w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/07welcome_fin01-1920x1936.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/07welcome_fin01-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/07welcome_fin01-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/07welcome_fin01-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/07welcome_fin01-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/07welcome_fin01-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/07welcome_fin01-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11710019\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/08cmonin_fin01-800x790.jpg\" alt=\"Cmon In by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"790\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/08cmonin_fin01.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/08cmonin_fin01-160x158.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/08cmonin_fin01-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/08cmonin_fin01-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/08cmonin_fin01-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/08cmonin_fin01-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts have told district officials that March and April will probably be the months that the true effects of the recent trauma will likely emerge in children and adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents were understandably reluctant to part with their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11710021\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/09staying_fin01-800x582.jpg\" alt=\"Staying by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/09staying_fin01.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/09staying_fin01-160x116.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they weren't welcoming students, the pain of Paradise Elementary School teachers and staff was evident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11710023\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/11hitme_fim01-800x840.jpg\" alt=\"Hit Me by mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/11hitme_fim01.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/11hitme_fim01-160x168.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/11hitme_fim01-240x252.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/11hitme_fim01-375x394.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/11hitme_fim01-520x546.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, about 20 miles away at the Chico Mall, students from Paradise High School enrolled in their new virtual school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11710123\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/12dawn_revise001-800x615.jpg\" alt=\"Dawn and Bryce by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/12dawn_revise001.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/12dawn_revise001-160x123.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"KQED cartoonist Mark Fiore was there when Paradise Elementary students were reunited with their teachers after the deadly Camp Fire. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1544028689,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":29,"wordCount":273},"headData":{"title":"The Second First Day: A Cartoon Sketchbook | KQED","description":"KQED cartoonist Mark Fiore was there when Paradise Elementary students were reunited with their teachers after the deadly Camp Fire. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11709972 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11709972","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/12/04/the-second-first-day-a-cartoon-sketchbook/","disqusTitle":"The Second First Day: A Cartoon Sketchbook","path":"/news/11709972/the-second-first-day-a-cartoon-sketchbook","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11710115\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/paradise_title_color_revise001-800x514.jpg\" alt=\"Paradise Elementary by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/paradise_title_color_revise001-800x514.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/paradise_title_color_revise001-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/paradise_title_color_revise001-1020x655.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/paradise_title_color_revise001-1200x771.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/paradise_title_color_revise001.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About three months after students attended their first day of school for the 2018-2019 school year, Paradise Elementary School and most of the surrounding town burned down in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/wildfires/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deadly Camp Fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, after being out of school for nearly a month following the wildfire, students attended their first day at the new Paradise Elementary School in Oroville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was there, sketching and listening while KQED's Michelle Wiley was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11709831/thousands-of-butte-county-students-return-to-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reporting\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students ran into the arms of their waiting teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11710117\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/01run_revise001-800x375.jpg\" alt=\"Running by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/01run_revise001.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/01run_revise001-160x75.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some students were driven to school by their parents, but most arrived on two school buses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11710119\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/02bus_revise001-800x606.jpg\" alt=\"Arriving by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/02bus_revise001.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/02bus_revise001-160x121.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/02bus_revise001-240x182.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/02bus_revise001-375x284.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/02bus_revise001-520x394.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school entrance was decorated with signs of support for the displaced students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11710014\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/03rocks_fin02-800x435.jpg\" alt=\"Rocks by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/03rocks_fin02.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/03rocks_fin02-160x87.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/03rocks_fin02-240x131.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/03rocks_fin02-375x204.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/03rocks_fin02-520x283.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were smiles, tears and hugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11709990\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/04doorway_fin01-800x526.jpg\" alt=\"Doorway by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/04doorway_fin01.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/04doorway_fin01-160x105.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11709991\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/10hugs_fin01-800x718.jpg\" alt=\"Hugs by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"718\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/10hugs_fin01.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/10hugs_fin01-160x144.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 500 elementary students enrolled in the Paradise Unified School District, only about half are returning to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many families have moved out of town, looking for jobs and places to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining students have now been reunited with their teachers at what used to be Bird Street Elementary School in Oroville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11710010\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/05birdstreet_fin02-800x342.jpg\" alt=\"Bird Street by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/05birdstreet_fin02.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/05birdstreet_fin02-160x68.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children seemed to make the most of their new situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11710007\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/06flash_fin02-800x417.jpg\" alt=\"Flash by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/06flash_fin02.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/06flash_fin02-160x83.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers and staff welcomed students, while some parents had hushed conversations about the recent events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11710018\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/07welcome_fin01-800x807.jpg\" alt=\"Welcome Back by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"807\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/07welcome_fin01-800x807.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/07welcome_fin01-160x161.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/07welcome_fin01-1020x1029.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/07welcome_fin01-1190x1200.jpg 1190w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/07welcome_fin01-1920x1936.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/07welcome_fin01-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/07welcome_fin01-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/07welcome_fin01-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/07welcome_fin01-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/07welcome_fin01-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/07welcome_fin01-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11710019\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/08cmonin_fin01-800x790.jpg\" alt=\"Cmon In by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"790\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/08cmonin_fin01.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/08cmonin_fin01-160x158.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/08cmonin_fin01-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/08cmonin_fin01-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/08cmonin_fin01-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/08cmonin_fin01-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts have told district officials that March and April will probably be the months that the true effects of the recent trauma will likely emerge in children and adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents were understandably reluctant to part with their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11710021\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/09staying_fin01-800x582.jpg\" alt=\"Staying by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/09staying_fin01.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/09staying_fin01-160x116.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they weren't welcoming students, the pain of Paradise Elementary School teachers and staff was evident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11710023\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/11hitme_fim01-800x840.jpg\" alt=\"Hit Me by mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/11hitme_fim01.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/11hitme_fim01-160x168.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/11hitme_fim01-240x252.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/11hitme_fim01-375x394.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/11hitme_fim01-520x546.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, about 20 miles away at the Chico Mall, students from Paradise High School enrolled in their new virtual school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11710123\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/12dawn_revise001-800x615.jpg\" alt=\"Dawn and Bryce by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/12dawn_revise001.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/12dawn_revise001-160x123.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11709972/the-second-first-day-a-cartoon-sketchbook","authors":["3236"],"programs":["news_72"],"series":["news_18515"],"categories":["news_223","news_18540","news_457","news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_20341","news_24483","news_255","news_20949","news_20536","news_22753","news_24594","news_24600","news_140","news_4337","news_4463"],"featImg":"news_11710122","label":"news_72"},"news_11620149":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11620149","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11620149","score":null,"sort":[1508782160000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"rebuilding-oroville-spillway-with-the-rainy-season-just-around-the-corner","title":"Rebuilding Oroville Spillway, With the Rainy Season Just Around the Corner","publishDate":1508782160,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>[dropcap]N[/dropcap]ovember 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the deadline for the army of construction workers laboring to rebuild Oroville Dam's main spillway to finish the first phase of the 18-month project -- now expected to cost \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/19/cost-of-repairing-oroville-dams-spillway-nearly-doubles-in-price-to-500-million/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at least $500 million\u003c/a>. This year's work aims to ensure that the spillway is capable of handling large releases of water this winter, if necessary, and that the first step in reinforcing the erosion-prone slope serving as the dam's emergency spillway is well underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result is a construction effort of vast scope and complexity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a lot of cool things going on here -- fast,\" Jeff Petersen, managing the project for contractor Kiewit Infrastructure West, told a pair of radio reporters during a recent site visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kiewit, and Petersen, came to Oroville fresh from another big Northern California dam project -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.spk.usace.army.mil/Missions/Civil-Works/Folsom-Dam-Auxiliary-Spillway/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the new auxiliary spillway\u003c/a> at Folsom Dam, a structure that took more than a decade to design and build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oroville project? With the coming rainy season as a deadline -- Oroville Dam got .69 of an inch of rain in last week's first storm of the season -- design, demolition and construction have been compressed into a few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What's different is the design's being done fast. It's different for the regulatory agencies to approve it as fast as they did,\" Petersen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He notes that many parts of the project construction have been under discussion even as demolition and construction began earlier this year. One of those unknowns involves the massive chasms that eroded beneath the spillway and how much excavation would be needed to reach the competent bedrock upon which the new spillway must be built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We didn't know how deep this cut was going to go,\" Petersen said as he stood at the edge of one of those chasms. \"So we had a rough plan, and then as you come out here and start doing the excavation and some more exploration, you say, 'Hey, we gotta get rid of this bad rock, let's take some more excavation out of this area.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11620113\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/23544904118_4b8e6a3f0a_o-e1506891551559.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11620113\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/23544904118_4b8e6a3f0a_o-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Petersen, with contractor Kiewit Infrastructure West, is managing the Oroville spillways project. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he main spillway itself is a structure whose scale is nearly impossible to comprehend, even when you're standing in the middle of it. The chute is 3,000 feet long and 180 feet wide, with side walls that are close to 3 stories tall. The chute plunges downhill from a structure housing eight massive gates designed to control the release of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system -- the flood control outlet, the spillway and the emergency -- are part of conventional dam design, allowing operators to manage the level of the reservoir behind Oroville Dam. What's not conventional is the scale: The dam is the tallest in the United States, rising 770 feet from the bed of the Feather River. And the reservoir behind it, Lake Oroville, is California's second largest (only Shasta Lake is bigger), with the capacity to store enough water to supply about 7 million California households for a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Feather River watershed's potential for unleashing massive amounts of runoff is also vast, and the main spillway and emergency spillway are designed, in theory, to allow passage of more than 600,000 cubic feet per second without threatening the dam's integrity (under this scenario, the concrete spillway would discharge 277,000 cfs and the emergency spillway -- again, an unpaved hillside -- would handle about 350,000 cfs).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a caveat there: \"in theory.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In practice, the highest flow the spillway has ever been called upon to handle was about 160,000 cfs, during the New Year's floods of January 1997. After that event, the structure, which had gone into service in 1968 and had already undergone extensive patching, required emergency repairs to cracked and eroded concrete and exposed rebar. A further top-to-bottom round of patching followed in 2009, followed by a less extensive job in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us to early February, when a large section of the invulnerable-looking chute disintegrated under flows of roughly 50,000 cfs. Subsequent flows devastated the concrete spillway structure. Water cascading over an ungated weir at about 12,000 cfs-- a trickle relative to what the Department of Water Resources says it could handle -- caused extensive erosion in the emergency spillway. That led to fears of a weir collapse and evacuation of 180,000 people downstream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That spillway failure and crisis, in turn, spawned the current sprint to rebuild the structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11620128\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/37366399212_5afbcee504_o-e1506891271701.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11620128\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/37366399212_5afbcee504_o-800x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"574\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The truck has just dumped a load of roller-compacted concrete (RCC) -- the material being used to fill the vast chasms that opened up after the main spillway breached in February. Some sections along the rebuilt spillway will have more than 200 vertical feet of RCC compacted into them. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]V[/dropcap]isitors to the sprawling construction site actually see several spillways in various states of preparation or completion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A portion of the original concrete chute -- the 730-foot-long top portion immediately below the spillway's giant gates -- is considered more or less sound and has undergone extensive patching. It will be demolished and replaced next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An 870-foot section of the chute adjoining that top piece and a 350-foot section at the bottom of the spillway, adjacent to the Feather River channel, are being completely rebuilt: demolished, excavated down to fresh rock, built up with layers of leveling and structural concrete. The new \"finished\" sections are being equipped with modern steel reinforcement, slab anchors, slab joints, water stops, drains and instruments to monitor future sub-slab flows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining piece of the spillway -- a 1,000-foot section in the middle -- suffered the worst damage in February, with high flows blasting away a deep core expanse of highly erodible rock and creating a series of deep chasms. That area, more than 200 feet deep in places, is being filled with hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of \u003ca href=\"http://www.cement.org/docs/default-source/th-paving-pdfs/rcc/roller-compacted-concrete-pca-logo.pdf?sfvrsn=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">roller-compacted concrete\u003c/a>, or RCC -- a stiff, drier-than-normal concrete mix that, as the name suggests, is packed into place by the same kind of roller equipment used in asphalt paving. The plan is to top that section with a 1-foot-thick layer of tougher RCC, which the Department of Water Resources and its expert consultants believe will stand up to flows of up to 100,000 cfs this winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, if all goes according to plan, that 1,000-foot spillway midsection and the patched section of old spillway at the top will be completed next year to the same standard as the rest of the structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial phase of the project to limit erosion in the emergency spillway -- a 1,700-foot-long wall of reinforced concrete piles sunk at least 35 feet below ground level and embedded at least 15 feet into strong rock -- is scheduled to be completed by January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Click on an image below for a larger version that will also open up a slideshow of all the pictures in the gallery. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"rectangle\" size=\"large\" ids=\"11620127,11620126,11620128,11620113,11620120,11620115,11620117,11620118,11620122,11620130,11620119,11620123,11620124\"]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Workers race to meet deadline for completing first phase in rebuilding massive flood control structure that failed last winter.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1509032175,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":true,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":1212},"headData":{"title":"Rebuilding Oroville Spillway, With the Rainy Season Just Around the Corner | KQED","description":"Workers race to meet deadline for completing first phase in rebuilding massive flood control structure that failed last winter.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11620149 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11620149","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/23/rebuilding-oroville-spillway-with-the-rainy-season-just-around-the-corner/","disqusTitle":"Rebuilding Oroville Spillway, With the Rainy Season Just Around the Corner","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/10/OrovilleUpdateBrekke171026.mp3","path":"/news/11620149/rebuilding-oroville-spillway-with-the-rainy-season-just-around-the-corner","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">N\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ovember 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the deadline for the army of construction workers laboring to rebuild Oroville Dam's main spillway to finish the first phase of the 18-month project -- now expected to cost \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/19/cost-of-repairing-oroville-dams-spillway-nearly-doubles-in-price-to-500-million/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at least $500 million\u003c/a>. This year's work aims to ensure that the spillway is capable of handling large releases of water this winter, if necessary, and that the first step in reinforcing the erosion-prone slope serving as the dam's emergency spillway is well underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result is a construction effort of vast scope and complexity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a lot of cool things going on here -- fast,\" Jeff Petersen, managing the project for contractor Kiewit Infrastructure West, told a pair of radio reporters during a recent site visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kiewit, and Petersen, came to Oroville fresh from another big Northern California dam project -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.spk.usace.army.mil/Missions/Civil-Works/Folsom-Dam-Auxiliary-Spillway/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the new auxiliary spillway\u003c/a> at Folsom Dam, a structure that took more than a decade to design and build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oroville project? With the coming rainy season as a deadline -- Oroville Dam got .69 of an inch of rain in last week's first storm of the season -- design, demolition and construction have been compressed into a few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What's different is the design's being done fast. It's different for the regulatory agencies to approve it as fast as they did,\" Petersen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He notes that many parts of the project construction have been under discussion even as demolition and construction began earlier this year. One of those unknowns involves the massive chasms that eroded beneath the spillway and how much excavation would be needed to reach the competent bedrock upon which the new spillway must be built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We didn't know how deep this cut was going to go,\" Petersen said as he stood at the edge of one of those chasms. \"So we had a rough plan, and then as you come out here and start doing the excavation and some more exploration, you say, 'Hey, we gotta get rid of this bad rock, let's take some more excavation out of this area.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11620113\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/23544904118_4b8e6a3f0a_o-e1506891551559.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11620113\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/23544904118_4b8e6a3f0a_o-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Petersen, with contractor Kiewit Infrastructure West, is managing the Oroville spillways project. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>he main spillway itself is a structure whose scale is nearly impossible to comprehend, even when you're standing in the middle of it. The chute is 3,000 feet long and 180 feet wide, with side walls that are close to 3 stories tall. The chute plunges downhill from a structure housing eight massive gates designed to control the release of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system -- the flood control outlet, the spillway and the emergency -- are part of conventional dam design, allowing operators to manage the level of the reservoir behind Oroville Dam. What's not conventional is the scale: The dam is the tallest in the United States, rising 770 feet from the bed of the Feather River. And the reservoir behind it, Lake Oroville, is California's second largest (only Shasta Lake is bigger), with the capacity to store enough water to supply about 7 million California households for a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Feather River watershed's potential for unleashing massive amounts of runoff is also vast, and the main spillway and emergency spillway are designed, in theory, to allow passage of more than 600,000 cubic feet per second without threatening the dam's integrity (under this scenario, the concrete spillway would discharge 277,000 cfs and the emergency spillway -- again, an unpaved hillside -- would handle about 350,000 cfs).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a caveat there: \"in theory.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In practice, the highest flow the spillway has ever been called upon to handle was about 160,000 cfs, during the New Year's floods of January 1997. After that event, the structure, which had gone into service in 1968 and had already undergone extensive patching, required emergency repairs to cracked and eroded concrete and exposed rebar. A further top-to-bottom round of patching followed in 2009, followed by a less extensive job in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us to early February, when a large section of the invulnerable-looking chute disintegrated under flows of roughly 50,000 cfs. Subsequent flows devastated the concrete spillway structure. Water cascading over an ungated weir at about 12,000 cfs-- a trickle relative to what the Department of Water Resources says it could handle -- caused extensive erosion in the emergency spillway. That led to fears of a weir collapse and evacuation of 180,000 people downstream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That spillway failure and crisis, in turn, spawned the current sprint to rebuild the structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11620128\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/37366399212_5afbcee504_o-e1506891271701.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11620128\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/37366399212_5afbcee504_o-800x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"574\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The truck has just dumped a load of roller-compacted concrete (RCC) -- the material being used to fill the vast chasms that opened up after the main spillway breached in February. Some sections along the rebuilt spillway will have more than 200 vertical feet of RCC compacted into them. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">V\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>isitors to the sprawling construction site actually see several spillways in various states of preparation or completion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A portion of the original concrete chute -- the 730-foot-long top portion immediately below the spillway's giant gates -- is considered more or less sound and has undergone extensive patching. It will be demolished and replaced next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An 870-foot section of the chute adjoining that top piece and a 350-foot section at the bottom of the spillway, adjacent to the Feather River channel, are being completely rebuilt: demolished, excavated down to fresh rock, built up with layers of leveling and structural concrete. The new \"finished\" sections are being equipped with modern steel reinforcement, slab anchors, slab joints, water stops, drains and instruments to monitor future sub-slab flows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining piece of the spillway -- a 1,000-foot section in the middle -- suffered the worst damage in February, with high flows blasting away a deep core expanse of highly erodible rock and creating a series of deep chasms. That area, more than 200 feet deep in places, is being filled with hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of \u003ca href=\"http://www.cement.org/docs/default-source/th-paving-pdfs/rcc/roller-compacted-concrete-pca-logo.pdf?sfvrsn=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">roller-compacted concrete\u003c/a>, or RCC -- a stiff, drier-than-normal concrete mix that, as the name suggests, is packed into place by the same kind of roller equipment used in asphalt paving. The plan is to top that section with a 1-foot-thick layer of tougher RCC, which the Department of Water Resources and its expert consultants believe will stand up to flows of up to 100,000 cfs this winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, if all goes according to plan, that 1,000-foot spillway midsection and the patched section of old spillway at the top will be completed next year to the same standard as the rest of the structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial phase of the project to limit erosion in the emergency spillway -- a 1,700-foot-long wall of reinforced concrete piles sunk at least 35 feet below ground level and embedded at least 15 feet into strong rock -- is scheduled to be completed by January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Click on an image below for a larger version that will also open up a slideshow of all the pictures in the gallery. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"gallery","attributes":{"named":{"type":"rectangle","size":"large","ids":"11620127,11620126,11620128,11620113,11620120,11620115,11620117,11620118,11620122,11620130,11620119,11620123,11620124","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11620149/rebuilding-oroville-spillway-with-the-rainy-season-just-around-the-corner","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_20699","news_20536","news_20509","news_17286"],"featImg":"news_11625444","label":"news_72"},"news_11617800":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11617800","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11617800","score":null,"sort":[1505871646000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"coalition-reopens-fight-for-improved-emergency-spillway-at-oroville-dam","title":"Coalition Reopens Fight for Improved Emergency Spillway at Oroville Dam","publishDate":1505871646,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A coalition of California environmental groups is calling on the California Department of Water Resources to build a complete, functional emergency spillway at Oroville Dam as part of a sweeping program to improve dam safety and flood control practices across the state and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conservation coalition -- including Friends of the River, the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, the South Yuba River Citizens League and American Whitewater -- released \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4056280/The-Oroville-Dam-2017-Spillway-Incident-Lessons.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a 53-page report\u003c/a> seeking to apply lessons learned from February's Oroville spillway crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report includes dozens of recommendations to improve oversight and operation of dams, adopt more environmentally friendly flood control measures in the Central Valley, make dam safety issues more transparent to the public, and try to heal the long, unhappy relationship between the Department of Water Resources and Oroville and other communities in the Feather River basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the overall issues here is that California's existing dam and flood infrastructure really needs to be fixed now,\" Eric Wesselman, Friends of the River executive director, said in presenting the report during a media call Tuesday. \"The near catastrophe at Oroville is a wake-up call for action to keep water moving and ensure people are safe and downstream communities are protected at Oroville, as well as at other high-hazard dams around the country. The incident exposed this reality that 20th century water infrastructure and management policies don't meet 21st century needs in a warming climate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The call for action at Oroville Dam continues a battle that began in 2005 when Friends of the River, the Sierra Club and the South Yuba group \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/12/oroville-dam-feds-and-state-officials-ignored-warnings-12-years-ago/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asked federal regulators\u003c/a> to consider requiring DWR, the dam's owner, to pave the emergency spillway -- a tree-and-rock-covered hillside that slopes steeply from a 1,730-foot-long concrete overflow weir to the Feather River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The groups argued that water cascading down the slope -- an event that at that point had never occurred -- posed a serious erosion threat and could prove disastrous both to the dam complex and downstream facilities and communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) rejected the request to study the issue after receiving assurances from the Department of Water Resources that erosion along the emergency spillway would be limited and that it posed no risk to the dam's other components. A 2014 FERC-DWR safety review \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/08/09/oroville-dam-spillway-ferc-safety-review-2014-ruled-out-spillway-failure/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rejected further study\u003c/a> of the erosion scenario as too unlikely to merit further study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the dam's main spillway failed in February, water rose rapidly in Lake Oroville and flowed over the emergency weir and down the unpaved hillside. The resulting erosion threatened to undermine the weir and unleash a wall of water down the Feather River, a prospect that prompted the evacuation of about 180,000 people downstream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Water Resources is in the midst of a crash construction effort to get a partially rebuilt main spillway ready for use in time for the rainy season. At the same time, it's taking steps that will reinforce the hillside that serves as the emergency spillway but stop well short of building a concrete channel to handle future overflows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ron Stork, senior policy advocate for Friends of the River, said building a functional concrete emergency spillway is a necessary step to prevent a repeat of February's near-disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noting that climate change increases the risk of \"a true catastrophe\" involving the state's water infrastructure, Stork said the Department of Water Resources \"must give us confidence that the reconstruction efforts at Oroville are well founded to ensure safe and reliable operations -- and that, of course, must include construction of a complete emergency spillway.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also calls for a fundamental change in how dams and attached facilities are inspected and evaluated. In a recommendation that echoes one \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/09/06/oroville-panel-says-dam-officials-missed-clues-to-spillway-flaws/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">made earlier this month\u003c/a> by the independent forensic team studying the Oroville spillway failure, the coalition urges dam owners to conduct periodic comprehensive reviews of dam facilities to compare their original design and construction against current standards and for federal regulators to consider dam safety when they review dams for relicensing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Overall, we're trying to have people, and people who manage water, look at water infrastructure differently,\" said Chris Shutes, FERC projects director for the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance. \"I would compare it to what happened after the Loma Prieta earthquake. We had engineers and architects going around looking at different buildings and re-evaluating them in light of what happened in Loma Prieta. And we're kind of looking for the same kind of approach with water infrastructure.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Groups that warned of perils associated with dam's emergency overflow scheme recommend sweeping program to improve dam safety and flood control practices across the state.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1505945753,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":764},"headData":{"title":"Coalition Reopens Fight for Improved Emergency Spillway at Oroville Dam | KQED","description":"Groups that warned of perils associated with dam's emergency overflow scheme recommend sweeping program to improve dam safety and flood control practices across the state.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11617800 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11617800","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/09/19/coalition-reopens-fight-for-improved-emergency-spillway-at-oroville-dam/","disqusTitle":"Coalition Reopens Fight for Improved Emergency Spillway at Oroville Dam","path":"/news/11617800/coalition-reopens-fight-for-improved-emergency-spillway-at-oroville-dam","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A coalition of California environmental groups is calling on the California Department of Water Resources to build a complete, functional emergency spillway at Oroville Dam as part of a sweeping program to improve dam safety and flood control practices across the state and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conservation coalition -- including Friends of the River, the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, the South Yuba River Citizens League and American Whitewater -- released \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4056280/The-Oroville-Dam-2017-Spillway-Incident-Lessons.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a 53-page report\u003c/a> seeking to apply lessons learned from February's Oroville spillway crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report includes dozens of recommendations to improve oversight and operation of dams, adopt more environmentally friendly flood control measures in the Central Valley, make dam safety issues more transparent to the public, and try to heal the long, unhappy relationship between the Department of Water Resources and Oroville and other communities in the Feather River basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the overall issues here is that California's existing dam and flood infrastructure really needs to be fixed now,\" Eric Wesselman, Friends of the River executive director, said in presenting the report during a media call Tuesday. \"The near catastrophe at Oroville is a wake-up call for action to keep water moving and ensure people are safe and downstream communities are protected at Oroville, as well as at other high-hazard dams around the country. The incident exposed this reality that 20th century water infrastructure and management policies don't meet 21st century needs in a warming climate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The call for action at Oroville Dam continues a battle that began in 2005 when Friends of the River, the Sierra Club and the South Yuba group \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/12/oroville-dam-feds-and-state-officials-ignored-warnings-12-years-ago/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asked federal regulators\u003c/a> to consider requiring DWR, the dam's owner, to pave the emergency spillway -- a tree-and-rock-covered hillside that slopes steeply from a 1,730-foot-long concrete overflow weir to the Feather River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The groups argued that water cascading down the slope -- an event that at that point had never occurred -- posed a serious erosion threat and could prove disastrous both to the dam complex and downstream facilities and communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) rejected the request to study the issue after receiving assurances from the Department of Water Resources that erosion along the emergency spillway would be limited and that it posed no risk to the dam's other components. A 2014 FERC-DWR safety review \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/08/09/oroville-dam-spillway-ferc-safety-review-2014-ruled-out-spillway-failure/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rejected further study\u003c/a> of the erosion scenario as too unlikely to merit further study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the dam's main spillway failed in February, water rose rapidly in Lake Oroville and flowed over the emergency weir and down the unpaved hillside. The resulting erosion threatened to undermine the weir and unleash a wall of water down the Feather River, a prospect that prompted the evacuation of about 180,000 people downstream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Water Resources is in the midst of a crash construction effort to get a partially rebuilt main spillway ready for use in time for the rainy season. At the same time, it's taking steps that will reinforce the hillside that serves as the emergency spillway but stop well short of building a concrete channel to handle future overflows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ron Stork, senior policy advocate for Friends of the River, said building a functional concrete emergency spillway is a necessary step to prevent a repeat of February's near-disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noting that climate change increases the risk of \"a true catastrophe\" involving the state's water infrastructure, Stork said the Department of Water Resources \"must give us confidence that the reconstruction efforts at Oroville are well founded to ensure safe and reliable operations -- and that, of course, must include construction of a complete emergency spillway.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also calls for a fundamental change in how dams and attached facilities are inspected and evaluated. In a recommendation that echoes one \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/09/06/oroville-panel-says-dam-officials-missed-clues-to-spillway-flaws/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">made earlier this month\u003c/a> by the independent forensic team studying the Oroville spillway failure, the coalition urges dam owners to conduct periodic comprehensive reviews of dam facilities to compare their original design and construction against current standards and for federal regulators to consider dam safety when they review dams for relicensing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Overall, we're trying to have people, and people who manage water, look at water infrastructure differently,\" said Chris Shutes, FERC projects director for the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance. \"I would compare it to what happened after the Loma Prieta earthquake. We had engineers and architects going around looking at different buildings and re-evaluating them in light of what happened in Loma Prieta. And we're kind of looking for the same kind of approach with water infrastructure.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11617800/coalition-reopens-fight-for-improved-emergency-spillway-at-oroville-dam","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_20699","news_19542","news_20536","news_20509","news_17286","news_17041"],"featImg":"news_11335254","label":"news_72"},"news_11616260":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11616260","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11616260","score":null,"sort":[1505157824000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"oroville-crisis-sheriff-called-emergency-an-ugly-shitty-mess","title":"Oroville Crisis: Sheriff Called Emergency 'An Ugly, Shitty Mess'","publishDate":1505157824,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A single photograph of rapid erosion below Oroville Dam's emergency spillway -- and an unidentified geologist's worried question about whether the local sheriff knew how dire the situation might be -- were the key events that led to the evacuation of 180,000 people living along the Feather River on Feb. 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As people fled Oroville and surrounding communities, Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea, who ordered the evacuation, described the situation as \"just an ugly, shitty mess, and we are trying to make the best of it.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those details of the Oroville crisis emerge from a series of stories and interviews published by \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/a0e3a36b699b4b539f85ea8074b45081\" target=\"_blank\">The Associated Press\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article172103682.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento Bee\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.chicoer.com/article/NA/20170907/NEWS/170909798\" target=\"_blank\">Chico Enterprise-Record\u003c/a>. The accounts are based on \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3987732-Oroville-Dam-Incident-Command-Notes.html\" target=\"_blank\">35 pages of notes\u003c/a> from the California Department of Water Resources that AP obtained under the California Public Records Act. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notes recount how during the afternoon of Feb. 12, five days after a breach in the dam's main spillway triggered a series of events that led to an uncontrolled overflow over an emergency weir. The overflow, the first in the dam's 48-year history, rapidly eroded a slope below the weir -- a scenario that a 2014 safety review \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/08/09/oroville-dam-spillway-ferc-safety-review-2014-ruled-out-spillway-failure/\" target=\"_blank\">had deemed so unlikely\u003c/a> it didn't merit serious study. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As late as 2 p.m. on Feb. 12, the Department of Water Resources was reassuring the public that the flows, which were just a tiny fraction of those envisioned pouring over the weir and down a steep slope to the Feather River, were under control. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CA_DWR/status/830898986403762176 \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to the newly published notes and interviews, that assessment changed by late afternoon when a still-anonymous geologist approached Pat Whitlock, the chief of DWR's Oroville field division, with a picture of the devastating erosion below the weir. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it wasn't for one geologist who came down and got (his) attention,\" the notes recount, Whitlock was \"afraid that we wouldn't have ever caught the problem.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honea, the Butte County sheriff, recounted in interviews with the Bee and the Enterprise-Record that he was getting ready to depart an incident command post at the Oroville field division office when he saw Whitlock looking at a picture. He heard one of a group of people huddled around Whitlock say, \"Does the sheriff know about this?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honea's account of what happened next, from the Enterprise-Record:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“I could tell Pat Whitlock was concerned. I could tell the people that had brought the picture to his attention were very concerned, but they had to explain to me what it meant. I was actually ready to go home for the evening. That’s when I walked up to say goodbye to everybody, saw them looking at the picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they told me the picture was showing erosion, I said, ‘OK, what does that mean? They said, ‘We need to talk more about it.’ They were probably gone 10 or 15 minutes. When they came back in, I could tell there was a high degree of concern among the group. By that time, (then-acting director of DWR) Bill Croyle had joined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was then, I began to interrogate the group, if you will, just so I could really hone in on the critical pieces of information needed to make a decision. It seemed that time was of the essence. I’ve talked about it a lot -- at that point, the realization struck me that there could be significant loss of life if we didn’t act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said to the group, essentially, it sounds to me like we need to evacuate. There were some side conversations in the room, probably 40 or 50 people in the conference room, and at that point, in a rather loud and assertive tone, I said, ‘Everybody listen to me,’ and kind of recounted the facts that had been presented to illustrate what the threat was and checked back with the subject matter experts and asked, ‘Do I understand this correctly?’ They said yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘It sounds to me we need to order an evacuation. If anyone disagrees with that or has a better alternative I need to know now,’ and the room was silent, everybody was looking at me. I did a visual check in with other incident commanders. I kind of got that confirmation I was doing the right thing.\"\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It was later, during a 7:30 p.m. meeting with other officials that Honea summarized the situation -- jammed traffic on roads leading out of Oroville, a Chico evacuation center filling up, media clamoring for new details of the emergency spillway threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yes, there is confusion and chaos,\" the notes quote him as saying. \"Better than what it could be. ... Just an ugly, shitty mess and we are trying to make the best of it.\" \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"New account says that one still-anonymous geologist called attention to erosion that threatened disaster and led to emergency evacuation of 180,000 people. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1505165453,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":825},"headData":{"title":"Oroville Crisis: Sheriff Called Emergency 'An Ugly, Shitty Mess' | KQED","description":"New account says that one still-anonymous geologist called attention to erosion that threatened disaster and led to emergency evacuation of 180,000 people. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11616260 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11616260","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/09/11/oroville-crisis-sheriff-called-emergency-an-ugly-shitty-mess/","disqusTitle":"Oroville Crisis: Sheriff Called Emergency 'An Ugly, Shitty Mess'","path":"/news/11616260/oroville-crisis-sheriff-called-emergency-an-ugly-shitty-mess","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A single photograph of rapid erosion below Oroville Dam's emergency spillway -- and an unidentified geologist's worried question about whether the local sheriff knew how dire the situation might be -- were the key events that led to the evacuation of 180,000 people living along the Feather River on Feb. 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As people fled Oroville and surrounding communities, Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea, who ordered the evacuation, described the situation as \"just an ugly, shitty mess, and we are trying to make the best of it.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those details of the Oroville crisis emerge from a series of stories and interviews published by \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/a0e3a36b699b4b539f85ea8074b45081\" target=\"_blank\">The Associated Press\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article172103682.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento Bee\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.chicoer.com/article/NA/20170907/NEWS/170909798\" target=\"_blank\">Chico Enterprise-Record\u003c/a>. The accounts are based on \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3987732-Oroville-Dam-Incident-Command-Notes.html\" target=\"_blank\">35 pages of notes\u003c/a> from the California Department of Water Resources that AP obtained under the California Public Records Act. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notes recount how during the afternoon of Feb. 12, five days after a breach in the dam's main spillway triggered a series of events that led to an uncontrolled overflow over an emergency weir. The overflow, the first in the dam's 48-year history, rapidly eroded a slope below the weir -- a scenario that a 2014 safety review \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/08/09/oroville-dam-spillway-ferc-safety-review-2014-ruled-out-spillway-failure/\" target=\"_blank\">had deemed so unlikely\u003c/a> it didn't merit serious study. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As late as 2 p.m. on Feb. 12, the Department of Water Resources was reassuring the public that the flows, which were just a tiny fraction of those envisioned pouring over the weir and down a steep slope to the Feather River, were under control. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"830898986403762176"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to the newly published notes and interviews, that assessment changed by late afternoon when a still-anonymous geologist approached Pat Whitlock, the chief of DWR's Oroville field division, with a picture of the devastating erosion below the weir. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it wasn't for one geologist who came down and got (his) attention,\" the notes recount, Whitlock was \"afraid that we wouldn't have ever caught the problem.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honea, the Butte County sheriff, recounted in interviews with the Bee and the Enterprise-Record that he was getting ready to depart an incident command post at the Oroville field division office when he saw Whitlock looking at a picture. He heard one of a group of people huddled around Whitlock say, \"Does the sheriff know about this?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honea's account of what happened next, from the Enterprise-Record:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“I could tell Pat Whitlock was concerned. I could tell the people that had brought the picture to his attention were very concerned, but they had to explain to me what it meant. I was actually ready to go home for the evening. That’s when I walked up to say goodbye to everybody, saw them looking at the picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they told me the picture was showing erosion, I said, ‘OK, what does that mean? They said, ‘We need to talk more about it.’ They were probably gone 10 or 15 minutes. When they came back in, I could tell there was a high degree of concern among the group. By that time, (then-acting director of DWR) Bill Croyle had joined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was then, I began to interrogate the group, if you will, just so I could really hone in on the critical pieces of information needed to make a decision. It seemed that time was of the essence. I’ve talked about it a lot -- at that point, the realization struck me that there could be significant loss of life if we didn’t act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said to the group, essentially, it sounds to me like we need to evacuate. There were some side conversations in the room, probably 40 or 50 people in the conference room, and at that point, in a rather loud and assertive tone, I said, ‘Everybody listen to me,’ and kind of recounted the facts that had been presented to illustrate what the threat was and checked back with the subject matter experts and asked, ‘Do I understand this correctly?’ They said yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘It sounds to me we need to order an evacuation. If anyone disagrees with that or has a better alternative I need to know now,’ and the room was silent, everybody was looking at me. I did a visual check in with other incident commanders. I kind of got that confirmation I was doing the right thing.\"\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It was later, during a 7:30 p.m. meeting with other officials that Honea summarized the situation -- jammed traffic on roads leading out of Oroville, a Chico evacuation center filling up, media clamoring for new details of the emergency spillway threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yes, there is confusion and chaos,\" the notes quote him as saying. \"Better than what it could be. ... Just an ugly, shitty mess and we are trying to make the best of it.\" \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11616260/oroville-crisis-sheriff-called-emergency-an-ugly-shitty-mess","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_20699","news_19542","news_20536","news_20509","news_17286"],"featImg":"news_11316407","label":"news_72"},"news_11615626":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11615626","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11615626","score":null,"sort":[1504740100000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"oroville-panel-says-dam-officials-missed-clues-to-spillway-flaws","title":"Oroville Panel Says Dam Officials Missed Clues to Spillway Flaws","publishDate":1504740100,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>An independent forensic panel investigating the failure of Oroville Dam's main spillway last February has released an interim report that provides a new glimpse at how the structure came apart in February, triggering a crisis that led to the emergency evacuation of 180,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3987374/IFT-Interim-Memo-Final-09-05-17.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">seven-page memo\u003c/a> also suggests that the California Department of Water Resources, which owns and operates the dam, was blind to a long history of problems that began accumulating during the design of the spillway in the 1960s and continued through the morning of Feb. 7, when the massive concrete structure began to disintegrate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report, released Tuesday, says it has found no evidence that DWR ever conducted the kind of comprehensive review of the spillway's original design and construction that might have brought to light the many problems that eventually undermined and destroyed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John France, a dam engineer based in Denver and the forensic team's leader, told reporters those shortcomings were all detailed in DWR files.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There has never been an evaluation completely that went back thoroughly in the files,\" as far as the panel could determine, France said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memo was released by the \u003ca href=\"https://damsafety.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Association of State Dam Safety Officials\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ussdams.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United States Society on Dams\u003c/a>, which assembled the team in March at the direction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report largely corroborates analyses from a team led by Robert Bea, an emeritus professor of civil engineering and leading expert in catastrophic risk management. Bea and associates concluded that \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/18/report-design-building-and-upkeep-flaws-led-to-oroville-spillway-failure/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the spillway was doomed\u003c/a> by flawed design, construction and maintenance and that state and federal overseers \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/21/oroville-dam-spillway-report-alleges-dwr-ferc-negligence/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">were negligent\u003c/a> in their response to spillway deficiencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The failure began, the independent forensic team says, as the Department of Water Resources increased flows down the spillway -- a step taken to make room in Lake Oroville for a surge of runoff from major winter storms in early February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the flow coming down the concrete chute on Feb. 7 was far below both the design capacity and some past releases, the rapidly moving water started to pull the spillway apart. The forensic team says it believes water flowing through open joints and myriad cracks and other flaws in the concrete surface created excessive pressure beneath the chute that lifted up part of one 40-by-50-foot slab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the first slab dislodged, water plunged into the gap and rapidly eroded the spillway foundation, ripping out more slabs. By the time flows were stopped -- less than three hours after the initial breach occurred -- a crater had formed that was about 200 feet long and stretched nearly all the way across the 180-foot-wide spillway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The forensic team said it was uncertain why the spillway failed in February after surviving earlier major releases. It said possibilities include recent damage or the deterioration of extensive earlier repairs; the expansion of voids under the slab that had formed due to long-term erosion; corrosion of reinforcing steel in the chute's concrete; and compromised steel anchor bars designed to help hold the concrete slabs in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memo also catalogs a series of design and construction flaws that made the spillway vulnerable to failure. Among them, the report calls out a poorly designed drainage system installed in a way that some parts of the concrete slab were as little as 4 inches thick; insufficient steel reinforcement; failure to remove weathered rock and dirt from large sections of the spillway foundation; and an inadequate system for anchoring the slab to underlying rock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The forensic team says it's still looking at what it calls the \"human and organizational factors\" that may have contributed to the spillway failure -- an inquiry that covers everything from how the Department of Water Resources made its initial decision on where to build the spillway to how it has inspected the structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strongest language in the memo is in a final \"lessons to be learned\" section, where the forensic experts call on dam owners to perform periodic reviews of the original design and construction of their facilities and compare them to \"current state of the practice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The (independent forensic team) has not seen any indication that such a review for the service spillway chute at Oroville Dam has ever been conducted since original construction,\" the memo said, \"Such a review would likely have 'connected the dots'\" and helped past safety reviews identify the factors that led to the spillway failure, the document says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement released after the memo was released, DWR spokeswoman Erin Mellon said the department \"agrees ... that dam owners need to reassess current procedures.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pointing to DWR's directive earlier this year for immediate reviews of the safety of nearly 100 dams statewide, Mellon said the department is determined to apply lessons learned from the Oroville crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The additional spillway evaluations already underway are the start of that process,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"An independent forensic team releases preliminary report outlining causes of February spillway failure and calling for more complete safety reviews in the future.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1504821567,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":827},"headData":{"title":"Oroville Panel Says Dam Officials Missed Clues to Spillway Flaws | KQED","description":"An independent forensic team releases preliminary report outlining causes of February spillway failure and calling for more complete safety reviews in the future.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11615626 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11615626","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/09/06/oroville-panel-says-dam-officials-missed-clues-to-spillway-flaws/","disqusTitle":"Oroville Panel Says Dam Officials Missed Clues to Spillway Flaws","path":"/news/11615626/oroville-panel-says-dam-officials-missed-clues-to-spillway-flaws","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>An independent forensic panel investigating the failure of Oroville Dam's main spillway last February has released an interim report that provides a new glimpse at how the structure came apart in February, triggering a crisis that led to the emergency evacuation of 180,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3987374/IFT-Interim-Memo-Final-09-05-17.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">seven-page memo\u003c/a> also suggests that the California Department of Water Resources, which owns and operates the dam, was blind to a long history of problems that began accumulating during the design of the spillway in the 1960s and continued through the morning of Feb. 7, when the massive concrete structure began to disintegrate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report, released Tuesday, says it has found no evidence that DWR ever conducted the kind of comprehensive review of the spillway's original design and construction that might have brought to light the many problems that eventually undermined and destroyed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John France, a dam engineer based in Denver and the forensic team's leader, told reporters those shortcomings were all detailed in DWR files.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There has never been an evaluation completely that went back thoroughly in the files,\" as far as the panel could determine, France said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memo was released by the \u003ca href=\"https://damsafety.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Association of State Dam Safety Officials\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ussdams.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United States Society on Dams\u003c/a>, which assembled the team in March at the direction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report largely corroborates analyses from a team led by Robert Bea, an emeritus professor of civil engineering and leading expert in catastrophic risk management. Bea and associates concluded that \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/18/report-design-building-and-upkeep-flaws-led-to-oroville-spillway-failure/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the spillway was doomed\u003c/a> by flawed design, construction and maintenance and that state and federal overseers \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/21/oroville-dam-spillway-report-alleges-dwr-ferc-negligence/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">were negligent\u003c/a> in their response to spillway deficiencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The failure began, the independent forensic team says, as the Department of Water Resources increased flows down the spillway -- a step taken to make room in Lake Oroville for a surge of runoff from major winter storms in early February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the flow coming down the concrete chute on Feb. 7 was far below both the design capacity and some past releases, the rapidly moving water started to pull the spillway apart. The forensic team says it believes water flowing through open joints and myriad cracks and other flaws in the concrete surface created excessive pressure beneath the chute that lifted up part of one 40-by-50-foot slab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the first slab dislodged, water plunged into the gap and rapidly eroded the spillway foundation, ripping out more slabs. By the time flows were stopped -- less than three hours after the initial breach occurred -- a crater had formed that was about 200 feet long and stretched nearly all the way across the 180-foot-wide spillway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The forensic team said it was uncertain why the spillway failed in February after surviving earlier major releases. It said possibilities include recent damage or the deterioration of extensive earlier repairs; the expansion of voids under the slab that had formed due to long-term erosion; corrosion of reinforcing steel in the chute's concrete; and compromised steel anchor bars designed to help hold the concrete slabs in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memo also catalogs a series of design and construction flaws that made the spillway vulnerable to failure. Among them, the report calls out a poorly designed drainage system installed in a way that some parts of the concrete slab were as little as 4 inches thick; insufficient steel reinforcement; failure to remove weathered rock and dirt from large sections of the spillway foundation; and an inadequate system for anchoring the slab to underlying rock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The forensic team says it's still looking at what it calls the \"human and organizational factors\" that may have contributed to the spillway failure -- an inquiry that covers everything from how the Department of Water Resources made its initial decision on where to build the spillway to how it has inspected the structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strongest language in the memo is in a final \"lessons to be learned\" section, where the forensic experts call on dam owners to perform periodic reviews of the original design and construction of their facilities and compare them to \"current state of the practice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The (independent forensic team) has not seen any indication that such a review for the service spillway chute at Oroville Dam has ever been conducted since original construction,\" the memo said, \"Such a review would likely have 'connected the dots'\" and helped past safety reviews identify the factors that led to the spillway failure, the document says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement released after the memo was released, DWR spokeswoman Erin Mellon said the department \"agrees ... that dam owners need to reassess current procedures.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pointing to DWR's directive earlier this year for immediate reviews of the safety of nearly 100 dams statewide, Mellon said the department is determined to apply lessons learned from the Oroville crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The additional spillway evaluations already underway are the start of that process,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11615626/oroville-panel-says-dam-officials-missed-clues-to-spillway-flaws","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_5428","news_19542","news_20536","news_17286","news_17041"],"featImg":"news_11347674","label":"news_72"},"news_11608745":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11608745","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11608745","score":null,"sort":[1502294494000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"oroville-dam-spillway-ferc-safety-review-2014-ruled-out-spillway-failure","title":"Panel Weighed Oroville Spillway Failure in 2014 -- and Called It 'Highly Unlikely'","publishDate":1502294494,"format":"image","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor's note: This story has been \u003ca href=\"#updated\">updated\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]C[/dropcap]onsider a couple of scenarios for big trouble at Oroville Dam:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First: The facility's main concrete spillway suffers serious damage, resulting in erosion of the rock beneath it -- and potentially threatening the safety of the dam itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second: Water fills Lake Oroville, the gigantic reservoir behind the dam, and begins surging down a steep unpaved hillside that's meant to serve as an emergency spillway. The slope suffers serious erosion, again potentially threatening the dam's safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These scenes will sound familiar to anyone who followed the crisis at Oroville, which began to unfold six months ago this week. In fact, you may think you watched them happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"x3InW8qQEQ1k40k0oU0Hh1odHHJBgZJd\"]But these aren't descriptions of actual events. They're worst-case scenarios that a federal-state safety review considered more than two years before Oroville became a synonym for \"near catastrophe.\" The review -- part of a process in which state, federal and independent experts study situations that could threaten a dam -- agreed the scenarios were so unlikely that they didn't merit further consideration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That finding, apparently based on inaccurate or incomplete information from the California Department of Water Resources about the condition of the dam's spillways and the strength of the rock they were built on, has led some dam safety experts and DWR critics to question both the evidence the safety board reviewed and whether the review process itself is effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study -- called a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ferc.gov/industries/hydropower/safety/guidelines/dspmp/background/per-plan.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">potential failure mode analysis\u003c/a>, or PFMA -- was performed in 2014 as part of what's called a Part 12D safety review, a title that refers to a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission regulation that requires independent safety inspections for most large dams every five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.water.ca.gov/oroville-spillway/pdf/ferc/2014%20Potential%20Failure%20Mode%20Analysis%20Workshop.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2014 PFMA\u003c/a> declined further study of 31 \"candidate\" possible failure modes, including the two that outlined possible spillway failures.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Spillway chute is in good condition, and the underlying rock is very competent.'\u003ccite>2014 Oroville Dam safety review\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Although the details of the evidence analyzed for the spillway failure scenarios is not publicly available, Department of Water Resources documents KQED obtained under the California Public Records Act and other \u003ca href=\"http://www.water.ca.gov/oroville-spillway/ferc_report.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently released records\u003c/a> give a clear indication of why the experts decided to shelve them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In dismissing the possibility that the main spillway might be lost, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3923829-2014-Potential-Failure-Mode-Analysis-Workshop.html#document/p1/a368139\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a PFMA summary\u003c/a> said the 3,000-foot-long concrete chute \"is in good condition and the underlying rock is very competent. ... It is seen as highly unlikely that the concrete lining will fail and highly unlikely that significant erosion of the rock will occur during one spilling event.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The summary noted the spillway chute had undergone \"minor repairs\" in 2009. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experts declined further study of \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3923828-2014-Potential-Failure-Mode-Analysis-Workshop.html#document/p1/a368140\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the emergency spillway scenario\u003c/a> -- which contemplated an overflow as much as 25 times greater than the one that actually occurred in February -- because of \"the rock between the Feather River and emergency spillway is very competent and resistant to erosion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Competent\" rock refers to rock that is only lightly weathered and is structurally sound and resistant to erosion. But despite the declarations in the PFMA summary, the February near-disaster showed that extensive areas of the rock underlying the concrete spillway and the hillside serving as the emergency spillway were \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2017/04/07/how-incompetent-rock-led-to-the-oroville-dam-crisis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">incompetent and highly erodible\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The PFMA's assumptions about the main spillway, too, are called into question by records that show DWR was well aware the chute's concrete surface was prone to chronic cracking and that water flowed through numerous flaws in the chute floor and undermined parts of the structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The records show the spillway underwent top-to-bottom repairs on at least three occasions, including: \u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>1977, when it was less than a decade old.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1997, after record releases caused what DWR described as \"distress throughout the length of the spillway\" that required issuance of an emergency contract for repair.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2009, when what the PFMA summary describes as \"minor repairs\" involved repairing cracks, exposed rebar, eroded concrete, broken subsurface drains and voids that had opened under the chute's slab.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The four outside consultants hired to conduct the 2014 Part 12D safety review, including the PFMA process, did not respond to emailed requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department of Water Resources spokeswoman Erin Mellon said in an email Monday the evidence presented for the potential failure mode analysis included a site inspection and historical documents including past geologic studies of the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While not offering specifics about the data considered, Mellon said \"the information gathered showed the spillway was in good condition and the rock beneath it was extremely competent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Poor-Quality Rock\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>J. David Rogers, a professor of geologic engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology who has visited the Oroville facility since the February crisis, said he was startled by the description of the rock under the spillways as being sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The principal issue with performance of the service and emergency spillways has been the poor quality of the underlying 'rock,' \" Rogers said in an email. He characterized the material as \"deeply weathered ... essentially with the consistency of stiff soil, not rock. The depth of weathering varies from 20 to 80 vertical feet, based on simple visual inspection.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'The principal issue with performance of the service and emergency spillways has been the poor quality of the underlying \"rock.\"'\u003ccite>J. David Rogers,\u003cbr>\nMissouri University of Science and Technology\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Rogers said the review panel would not have had \"any easy means\" of determining the true character of the material underlying the spillways -- except perhaps for the appearance of \"apparently competent\" bedrock exposed at the top of the spillway adjacent to the massive control structure that houses a set of eight huge floodgates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the appearance of that apparently sound rock might have been misleading, Rogers said, because crews had to remove 70 feet of material to reach it. Most of the rest of the spillway, he said, was excavated no more than 20 or 25 feet deep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That left masses of weaker material in place under the spillway. When the concrete chute breached during moderate flows in February, he said, \"the rushing water was able to pluck crushed rock and soil\" from beneath the spillway, ultimately destroying it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11316407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/KG_oro_spillway_damage-12011_02_13_2017-e1487088543262.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11316407\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/KG_oro_spillway_damage-12011_02_13_2017-800x546.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"546\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Department of Water Resources crews inspect and evaluate the erosion in the Oroville Dam's emergency spillway on Feb. 13, the day after state officials ordered the immediate evacuation of residents downstream. DWR had concluded in earlier studies that just 1 to 4 feet of erosion would occur if water flowed down the emergency spillway. \u003ccite>(Kelly M. Grow/California Department of Water Resources)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emergency Spillway: Theory vs. Reality\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main spillway failure in February came just as a series of powerful, warm storms dumped heavy rain over the Feather River watershed, partially melting a thick blanket of snow that had fallen earlier in the season and triggering a surge of runoff into Lake Oroville. Dam managers responded by ramping up releases down the spillway to about 50,000 cubic feet per second, less than 20 percent of its design capacity and about one-third of its record flow rate in January 1997.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a large hole appeared in the spillway on Feb. 7, DWR temporarily stopped releasing water down the chute, then resumed limited flows as large sections of the rock beneath the concrete structure rapidly eroded -- contrary to the confident assertions that the material was \"very competent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, the lake rose toward its rim. On Feb. 11, for the first time in the dam's history, water began pouring over a 1,700-foot-long weir adjacent to the concrete chute and down the hill designated as the dam's emergency spillway. Less than 30 hours later, on the afternoon of Feb. 12, uphill erosion of the type dismissed by the 2014 PFMA had scoured channels as much as 50 feet deep and appeared to be threatening the stability of the weir. The fear of a collapse, which would unleash a catastrophic flood down the Feather River, prompted the emergency evacuation of Oroville and other riverside communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That uncontrolled flow in February peaked at about 12,500 cubic feet per second, just a tiny fraction of the 350,000 cubic feet -- about 2.6 million gallons -- per second it was supposed to handle. (The regulated \u003ca href=\"http://www.lre.usace.army.mil/Missions/Great-Lakes-Information/Outflows/Discharge-Measurements/Niagara-River/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">flow over Niagara Falls\u003c/a>, by comparison, is 100,000 cfs during \"tourist\" hours.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That theoretical maximum flow over Oroville's emergency weir represented what might happen in a worst-case flood scenario, when both spillways would have a single purpose: preventing water from flowing over the top of Oroville Dam, an event that could lead to the structure's collapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Water Resources and FERC had insisted for more than a decade prior to the February emergency -- and through three separate potential failure mode analyses -- that even under the duress of extremely high flows racing down the tree- and brush-covered slope, erosion would be limited to just 1 to 4 feet of surface material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erin Mellon, the DWR spokeswoman, on Monday repeated earlier department statements that it's up to an independent forensics team -- appointed in March at FERC's direction -- to analyze the causes of the spillway failure. She didn't respond to a question about why DWR's understanding of the conditions underlying the spillways was so different from actual conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal Energy Regulatory Commission spokeswoman Celeste Miller said that a \"panel of expert consultants\" is reviewing the history and performance of the agency's safety program, including past potential failure analyses, for Oroville Dam. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Need for Re-evaluation?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin McCann, an adjunct professor at Stanford’s College of Civil and Environmental Engineering and director of the college’s \u003ca href=\"http://npdp.stanford.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Performance of Dams Program\u003c/a>, says the Oroville episode shows a re-evaluation of the way potential failure mode analyses are done may be in order. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In light of the two regulatory bodies and a responsible owner being involved in the PFMA process, we've got to ask ourselves, 'Are we getting it right?'\" McCann said in an interview. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This stuff is not easy -- it really is quite difficult,\" he said. \"It takes expertise, it takes experience, it takes interpretation and evaluation on the part of experts, and that's very hard. Perhaps the process needs to be re-examined.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11610666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/KG_oroville_4296_07_21_2017.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11610666\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/KG_oroville_4296_07_21_2017-800x511.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/KG_oroville_4296_07_21_2017-800x511.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/KG_oroville_4296_07_21_2017-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/KG_oroville_4296_07_21_2017-1020x652.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/KG_oroville_4296_07_21_2017-1920x1226.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/KG_oroville_4296_07_21_2017-1180x754.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/KG_oroville_4296_07_21_2017-960x613.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/KG_oroville_4296_07_21_2017-240x153.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/KG_oroville_4296_07_21_2017-375x240.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/KG_oroville_4296_07_21_2017-520x332.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">July construction activity below Oroville Dam's emergency weir. Crews are building a massive wall in the slope below the weir to prevent potentially dangerous erosion of the kind that appeared during an overflow in February. \u003ccite>(Kelly M. Grow/California Department of Water Resources)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>David Rogers, the Missouri geoengineering expert, said Oroville could shake up future safety dam reviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unexpected failures have a way of waking people up and providing a much needed 'reality check' for both the engineers and the politicians,\" Rogers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those who agrees is Assemblyman James Gallagher, who represents Oroville. He's proposed legislation, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1270\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AB 1270\u003c/a>, that would require more frequent and tougher dam safety inspections and subject them to periodic review by UC Berkeley's Center for Catastrophic Risk Management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallagher said in an interview last week that the 2014 PFMA decision to decline further study of the possibility of spillway failures \"goes to one of the fundamental issues\" raised by the Oroville crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have independent oversight,\" Gallagher said. \"But the question is, are they asking the right questions? Do they have the right data to properly provide that oversight? ... When something catastrophic happens, do we have enough information and the right processes and procedures in place to handle those situations? And the answer right now is clearly, no, we don't.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"updated\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated to incorporate information from newly released documents on the 2014 Potential Failure Mode Analysis involving Oroville Dam's main and emergency spillways and to include a response from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The story has also been edited to add links to some of the historical documents referenced in the text.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Federal-state safety review considered scenarios strikingly similar to actual February events, but said they were so unlikely to happen they didn't warrant further study. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1654992847,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":47,"wordCount":2004},"headData":{"title":"Panel Weighed Oroville Spillway Failure in 2014 -- and Called It 'Highly Unlikely' | KQED","description":"Federal-state safety review considered scenarios strikingly similar to actual February events, but said they were so unlikely to happen they didn't warrant further study. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11608745 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11608745","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/08/09/oroville-dam-spillway-ferc-safety-review-2014-ruled-out-spillway-failure/","disqusTitle":"Panel Weighed Oroville Spillway Failure in 2014 -- and Called It 'Highly Unlikely'","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11608745/oroville-dam-spillway-ferc-safety-review-2014-ruled-out-spillway-failure","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor's note: This story has been \u003ca href=\"#updated\">updated\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">C\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>onsider a couple of scenarios for big trouble at Oroville Dam:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First: The facility's main concrete spillway suffers serious damage, resulting in erosion of the rock beneath it -- and potentially threatening the safety of the dam itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second: Water fills Lake Oroville, the gigantic reservoir behind the dam, and begins surging down a steep unpaved hillside that's meant to serve as an emergency spillway. The slope suffers serious erosion, again potentially threatening the dam's safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These scenes will sound familiar to anyone who followed the crisis at Oroville, which began to unfold six months ago this week. In fact, you may think you watched them happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>But these aren't descriptions of actual events. They're worst-case scenarios that a federal-state safety review considered more than two years before Oroville became a synonym for \"near catastrophe.\" The review -- part of a process in which state, federal and independent experts study situations that could threaten a dam -- agreed the scenarios were so unlikely that they didn't merit further consideration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That finding, apparently based on inaccurate or incomplete information from the California Department of Water Resources about the condition of the dam's spillways and the strength of the rock they were built on, has led some dam safety experts and DWR critics to question both the evidence the safety board reviewed and whether the review process itself is effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study -- called a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ferc.gov/industries/hydropower/safety/guidelines/dspmp/background/per-plan.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">potential failure mode analysis\u003c/a>, or PFMA -- was performed in 2014 as part of what's called a Part 12D safety review, a title that refers to a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission regulation that requires independent safety inspections for most large dams every five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.water.ca.gov/oroville-spillway/pdf/ferc/2014%20Potential%20Failure%20Mode%20Analysis%20Workshop.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2014 PFMA\u003c/a> declined further study of 31 \"candidate\" possible failure modes, including the two that outlined possible spillway failures.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Spillway chute is in good condition, and the underlying rock is very competent.'\u003ccite>2014 Oroville Dam safety review\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Although the details of the evidence analyzed for the spillway failure scenarios is not publicly available, Department of Water Resources documents KQED obtained under the California Public Records Act and other \u003ca href=\"http://www.water.ca.gov/oroville-spillway/ferc_report.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently released records\u003c/a> give a clear indication of why the experts decided to shelve them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In dismissing the possibility that the main spillway might be lost, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3923829-2014-Potential-Failure-Mode-Analysis-Workshop.html#document/p1/a368139\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a PFMA summary\u003c/a> said the 3,000-foot-long concrete chute \"is in good condition and the underlying rock is very competent. ... It is seen as highly unlikely that the concrete lining will fail and highly unlikely that significant erosion of the rock will occur during one spilling event.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The summary noted the spillway chute had undergone \"minor repairs\" in 2009. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experts declined further study of \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3923828-2014-Potential-Failure-Mode-Analysis-Workshop.html#document/p1/a368140\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the emergency spillway scenario\u003c/a> -- which contemplated an overflow as much as 25 times greater than the one that actually occurred in February -- because of \"the rock between the Feather River and emergency spillway is very competent and resistant to erosion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Competent\" rock refers to rock that is only lightly weathered and is structurally sound and resistant to erosion. But despite the declarations in the PFMA summary, the February near-disaster showed that extensive areas of the rock underlying the concrete spillway and the hillside serving as the emergency spillway were \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2017/04/07/how-incompetent-rock-led-to-the-oroville-dam-crisis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">incompetent and highly erodible\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The PFMA's assumptions about the main spillway, too, are called into question by records that show DWR was well aware the chute's concrete surface was prone to chronic cracking and that water flowed through numerous flaws in the chute floor and undermined parts of the structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The records show the spillway underwent top-to-bottom repairs on at least three occasions, including: \u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>1977, when it was less than a decade old.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1997, after record releases caused what DWR described as \"distress throughout the length of the spillway\" that required issuance of an emergency contract for repair.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2009, when what the PFMA summary describes as \"minor repairs\" involved repairing cracks, exposed rebar, eroded concrete, broken subsurface drains and voids that had opened under the chute's slab.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The four outside consultants hired to conduct the 2014 Part 12D safety review, including the PFMA process, did not respond to emailed requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department of Water Resources spokeswoman Erin Mellon said in an email Monday the evidence presented for the potential failure mode analysis included a site inspection and historical documents including past geologic studies of the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While not offering specifics about the data considered, Mellon said \"the information gathered showed the spillway was in good condition and the rock beneath it was extremely competent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Poor-Quality Rock\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>J. David Rogers, a professor of geologic engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology who has visited the Oroville facility since the February crisis, said he was startled by the description of the rock under the spillways as being sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The principal issue with performance of the service and emergency spillways has been the poor quality of the underlying 'rock,' \" Rogers said in an email. He characterized the material as \"deeply weathered ... essentially with the consistency of stiff soil, not rock. The depth of weathering varies from 20 to 80 vertical feet, based on simple visual inspection.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'The principal issue with performance of the service and emergency spillways has been the poor quality of the underlying \"rock.\"'\u003ccite>J. David Rogers,\u003cbr>\nMissouri University of Science and Technology\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Rogers said the review panel would not have had \"any easy means\" of determining the true character of the material underlying the spillways -- except perhaps for the appearance of \"apparently competent\" bedrock exposed at the top of the spillway adjacent to the massive control structure that houses a set of eight huge floodgates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the appearance of that apparently sound rock might have been misleading, Rogers said, because crews had to remove 70 feet of material to reach it. Most of the rest of the spillway, he said, was excavated no more than 20 or 25 feet deep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That left masses of weaker material in place under the spillway. When the concrete chute breached during moderate flows in February, he said, \"the rushing water was able to pluck crushed rock and soil\" from beneath the spillway, ultimately destroying it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11316407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/KG_oro_spillway_damage-12011_02_13_2017-e1487088543262.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11316407\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/KG_oro_spillway_damage-12011_02_13_2017-800x546.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"546\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Department of Water Resources crews inspect and evaluate the erosion in the Oroville Dam's emergency spillway on Feb. 13, the day after state officials ordered the immediate evacuation of residents downstream. DWR had concluded in earlier studies that just 1 to 4 feet of erosion would occur if water flowed down the emergency spillway. \u003ccite>(Kelly M. Grow/California Department of Water Resources)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emergency Spillway: Theory vs. Reality\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main spillway failure in February came just as a series of powerful, warm storms dumped heavy rain over the Feather River watershed, partially melting a thick blanket of snow that had fallen earlier in the season and triggering a surge of runoff into Lake Oroville. Dam managers responded by ramping up releases down the spillway to about 50,000 cubic feet per second, less than 20 percent of its design capacity and about one-third of its record flow rate in January 1997.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a large hole appeared in the spillway on Feb. 7, DWR temporarily stopped releasing water down the chute, then resumed limited flows as large sections of the rock beneath the concrete structure rapidly eroded -- contrary to the confident assertions that the material was \"very competent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, the lake rose toward its rim. On Feb. 11, for the first time in the dam's history, water began pouring over a 1,700-foot-long weir adjacent to the concrete chute and down the hill designated as the dam's emergency spillway. Less than 30 hours later, on the afternoon of Feb. 12, uphill erosion of the type dismissed by the 2014 PFMA had scoured channels as much as 50 feet deep and appeared to be threatening the stability of the weir. The fear of a collapse, which would unleash a catastrophic flood down the Feather River, prompted the emergency evacuation of Oroville and other riverside communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That uncontrolled flow in February peaked at about 12,500 cubic feet per second, just a tiny fraction of the 350,000 cubic feet -- about 2.6 million gallons -- per second it was supposed to handle. (The regulated \u003ca href=\"http://www.lre.usace.army.mil/Missions/Great-Lakes-Information/Outflows/Discharge-Measurements/Niagara-River/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">flow over Niagara Falls\u003c/a>, by comparison, is 100,000 cfs during \"tourist\" hours.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That theoretical maximum flow over Oroville's emergency weir represented what might happen in a worst-case flood scenario, when both spillways would have a single purpose: preventing water from flowing over the top of Oroville Dam, an event that could lead to the structure's collapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Water Resources and FERC had insisted for more than a decade prior to the February emergency -- and through three separate potential failure mode analyses -- that even under the duress of extremely high flows racing down the tree- and brush-covered slope, erosion would be limited to just 1 to 4 feet of surface material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erin Mellon, the DWR spokeswoman, on Monday repeated earlier department statements that it's up to an independent forensics team -- appointed in March at FERC's direction -- to analyze the causes of the spillway failure. She didn't respond to a question about why DWR's understanding of the conditions underlying the spillways was so different from actual conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal Energy Regulatory Commission spokeswoman Celeste Miller said that a \"panel of expert consultants\" is reviewing the history and performance of the agency's safety program, including past potential failure analyses, for Oroville Dam. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Need for Re-evaluation?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin McCann, an adjunct professor at Stanford’s College of Civil and Environmental Engineering and director of the college’s \u003ca href=\"http://npdp.stanford.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Performance of Dams Program\u003c/a>, says the Oroville episode shows a re-evaluation of the way potential failure mode analyses are done may be in order. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In light of the two regulatory bodies and a responsible owner being involved in the PFMA process, we've got to ask ourselves, 'Are we getting it right?'\" McCann said in an interview. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This stuff is not easy -- it really is quite difficult,\" he said. \"It takes expertise, it takes experience, it takes interpretation and evaluation on the part of experts, and that's very hard. Perhaps the process needs to be re-examined.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11610666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/KG_oroville_4296_07_21_2017.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11610666\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/KG_oroville_4296_07_21_2017-800x511.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/KG_oroville_4296_07_21_2017-800x511.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/KG_oroville_4296_07_21_2017-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/KG_oroville_4296_07_21_2017-1020x652.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/KG_oroville_4296_07_21_2017-1920x1226.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/KG_oroville_4296_07_21_2017-1180x754.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/KG_oroville_4296_07_21_2017-960x613.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/KG_oroville_4296_07_21_2017-240x153.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/KG_oroville_4296_07_21_2017-375x240.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/KG_oroville_4296_07_21_2017-520x332.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">July construction activity below Oroville Dam's emergency weir. Crews are building a massive wall in the slope below the weir to prevent potentially dangerous erosion of the kind that appeared during an overflow in February. \u003ccite>(Kelly M. Grow/California Department of Water Resources)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>David Rogers, the Missouri geoengineering expert, said Oroville could shake up future safety dam reviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unexpected failures have a way of waking people up and providing a much needed 'reality check' for both the engineers and the politicians,\" Rogers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those who agrees is Assemblyman James Gallagher, who represents Oroville. He's proposed legislation, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1270\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AB 1270\u003c/a>, that would require more frequent and tougher dam safety inspections and subject them to periodic review by UC Berkeley's Center for Catastrophic Risk Management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallagher said in an interview last week that the 2014 PFMA decision to decline further study of the possibility of spillway failures \"goes to one of the fundamental issues\" raised by the Oroville crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have independent oversight,\" Gallagher said. \"But the question is, are they asking the right questions? Do they have the right data to properly provide that oversight? ... When something catastrophic happens, do we have enough information and the right processes and procedures in place to handle those situations? And the answer right now is clearly, no, we don't.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"updated\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated to incorporate information from newly released documents on the 2014 Potential Failure Mode Analysis involving Oroville Dam's main and emergency spillways and to include a response from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The story has also been edited to add links to some of the historical documents referenced in the text.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11608745/oroville-dam-spillway-ferc-safety-review-2014-ruled-out-spillway-failure","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_20699","news_19542","news_20536","news_20509","news_17286","news_17041"],"featImg":"news_11397560","label":"news_72"},"news_11579545":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11579545","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11579545","score":null,"sort":[1500674128000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"oroville-dam-spillway-report-alleges-dwr-ferc-negligence","title":"Report: State, Feds 'Negligent' in Oversight of Oroville Dam","publishDate":1500674128,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated, 3:45 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new report by a group of independent engineering analysts investigating the failure of the Oroville Dam's spillways earlier this year says state and federal agencies were guilty of negligence in their management of the facility, pointing to a long series of alleged failures they say led not only to February's near-disaster but could also pose threats to the immense dam itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3898834-Bea-and-Johnson-ROOT-CAUSES-REPORT.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The report\u003c/a>, the third in a series of analyses exploring root causes of the spillway failure undertaken by Robert Bea, a retired UC Berkeley civil engineering professor, says the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the California Department of Water Resources and its associated Division of Safety of Dams all failed to act on evidence that dam's massive concrete spillway was seriously compromised prior to a massive breach that appeared on Feb. 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The break in the structure set off a chain of events, including the dam's first-ever use of an unpaved hillside as an emergency spillway, that led to the evacuation of 180,000 people living along the Feather River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Oroville Dam Gated Spillway failure/self-destruction was preventable,\" the new analysis says. \"Over decades, there were many opportunities for DWR, DSOD, and FERC to recognize and investigate serious issues that could have led to effective remedial measures.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report calls the agencies \"negligent\" in failing to identify and correct the spillway problems -- flaws the study says dated back to its construction and resulted in repeated cycles of serious damage and extensive repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have concluded DWR and DSOD should have taken the steps to update the design, construction, operations and maintenance facilities so as to satisfy its documented statutory, regulatory and management responsibilities,\" the report says. \"A superficial ‘patch and pray’ approach is not an acceptable safety and risk management process for important public infrastructure systems.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bea's \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/18/report-design-building-and-upkeep-flaws-led-to-oroville-spillway-failure/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first report\u003c/a>, released in April, concluded that substandard design, construction and maintenance of the spillway led to the Feb. 7 breach. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3898846-Oroville-Forensic-Board.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">preliminary list\u003c/a> of \"possible physical factors\" from an expert forensics panel appointed to investigate the spillway failure later cited many of the same potential causes discussed in Bea's initial analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked for comment, DWR spokeswoman Erin Mellon said in an email: \"The forensic team, a collection of internationally respected scientists with dam safety and engineering expertise, continues its comprehensive assessment of the cause of the failure and we expect their report to be completed this fall. In the meantime, we welcome additional analyses and studies and will ensure this report is shared with the forensic team.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FERC did not respond immediately to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bea's second report, delivered in \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3898955-Bea-May-11-Testimony-Report-Rev-1-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">testimony\u003c/a> to the Legislature in May, included a series of recommendations to overhaul the DWR's project management, inspection and maintenance practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three reports were produced under the auspices of UC Berkeley's \u003ca href=\"http://ccrm.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center for Catastrophic Risk Management\u003c/a>. Each of the studies has included analyses performed by a wide array of independent researchers -- some of whom first posted their findings and speculations in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/*/index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Free Republic\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.metabunk.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Metabunk\u003c/a> online communities -- and reviewed by Bea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report released Thursday also delves into ongoing maintenance issues at the dam, citing years of DWR inspection reports that have documented possible problems with the massive concrete structure that supports the spillway gates and with an area of persistent moisture -- which has come to be known in official documents as \"the green spot\" -- on the downstream face of the dam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study suggests those issues put the entire dam complex at risk of failure. The Department of Water Resources has not commented on the spillway gate issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DWR has said -- for instance, in a page of \u003ca href=\"http://www.water.ca.gov/oroville-spillway/faqs.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">frequently asked questions\u003c/a> -- that the dam is sound and has never been at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has also attributed green areas on the dam to rainfall and noted green areas first appeared on the structure before the reservoir behind it, Lake Oroville, filled in 1968.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, DWR spokeswoman Mellon said the department is \"working on a preliminary report explaining the green spot. ... There has also been an on-going evaluation and there will be a subsequent final report on this longstanding issue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency is in the midst of a crash construction program to replace parts of the shattered spillway before autumn rains begin. Omaha-based Kiewit Infrastructure West is working to replace the lower part of the structure this year, then demolish and replace the upper section in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work this year also involves installing a 1,700-foot-long wall to protect the dam's emergency weir. Severe erosion occurred when water began flowing over that structure in February, threatening to undermine it and release a catastrophic torrent of water downstream. Concern about the weir's apparently imminent failure led to mass evacuations in Butte, Yuba and Sutter counties on Feb. 12.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Analysis accuses agencies of relying on a 'patch and pray' approach that led to spillway crisis in February. 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A \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3898846-Oroville-Forensic-Board.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">preliminary list\u003c/a> of \"possible physical factors\" from an expert forensics panel appointed to investigate the spillway failure later cited many of the same potential causes discussed in Bea's initial analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked for comment, DWR spokeswoman Erin Mellon said in an email: \"The forensic team, a collection of internationally respected scientists with dam safety and engineering expertise, continues its comprehensive assessment of the cause of the failure and we expect their report to be completed this fall. In the meantime, we welcome additional analyses and studies and will ensure this report is shared with the forensic team.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FERC did not respond immediately to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bea's second report, delivered in \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3898955-Bea-May-11-Testimony-Report-Rev-1-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">testimony\u003c/a> to the Legislature in May, included a series of recommendations to overhaul the DWR's project management, inspection and maintenance practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three reports were produced under the auspices of UC Berkeley's \u003ca href=\"http://ccrm.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center for Catastrophic Risk Management\u003c/a>. Each of the studies has included analyses performed by a wide array of independent researchers -- some of whom first posted their findings and speculations in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/*/index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Free Republic\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.metabunk.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Metabunk\u003c/a> online communities -- and reviewed by Bea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report released Thursday also delves into ongoing maintenance issues at the dam, citing years of DWR inspection reports that have documented possible problems with the massive concrete structure that supports the spillway gates and with an area of persistent moisture -- which has come to be known in official documents as \"the green spot\" -- on the downstream face of the dam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study suggests those issues put the entire dam complex at risk of failure. The Department of Water Resources has not commented on the spillway gate issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DWR has said -- for instance, in a page of \u003ca href=\"http://www.water.ca.gov/oroville-spillway/faqs.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">frequently asked questions\u003c/a> -- that the dam is sound and has never been at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has also attributed green areas on the dam to rainfall and noted green areas first appeared on the structure before the reservoir behind it, Lake Oroville, filled in 1968.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, DWR spokeswoman Mellon said the department is \"working on a preliminary report explaining the green spot. ... There has also been an on-going evaluation and there will be a subsequent final report on this longstanding issue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency is in the midst of a crash construction program to replace parts of the shattered spillway before autumn rains begin. 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