California's second largest reservoir is damaged. These water releases just made it worse

[Zorro]

As storm runoff poured into fast rising Lake Oroville Thursday, the state resumed releases down the reservoir’s damaged spillway, creating dramatic scenes of muddy torrents gushing over the concrete chute.

The releases tore a larger hole in the spillway and jumped over the structure, creating an instant waterfall.

“These pictures are dramatic and they will continue to change and be dramatic,” William Croyle, acting director of the state Department of Water Resources, said at an evening news briefing.

“As we upped the flows … that’s further eroding around the lower part of the spillway and the spillway itself. That’s not a surprise to us,” he added.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-oroville-spillway-damage-20170209-story.html

[WhiteTara]

1. That is really a major reservoir and this will be a disaster for

the people living in that part of the state. I hope they can repair the damage before the end of the rainy season.