I know that huge siphons siphon water from the San Joaquin Valley into the Los Angeles County area over the coastal range. So, if that can be done can temporary siphons be installed to bypass the spillways directly into the Feather River feeders?
This dam obviously is going to have to either be completely rebuilt or both spillways be re-poured with reinforced concrete to make this dam viable once again. So, in the meantime siphons could be installed to siphon the water out of the dam to hit below the disintegrating spillways.
The real danger to me as a person of both logic and intuition is even if the dam survives the first storm this week it likely won't survive the 2nd one which brings heavy heavy rain.
I could see people who just cannot financially afford to not be in their homes or businesses for 8 or more days trying to go back and being swept away in the inundation of a 30 foot wall of water coming down whenever the dam fails.
So, the problem I see is around 5 to 8 days out from now when the dam likely will inevitably fail because of heavy rainfall even if the first storm this week doesn't bring the dam down.
So, in the meantime can emergency siphons be installed to bypass the spillways down to firmer ground in feeder rivers into the Feather river below the Dam?
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