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A comment on Realtime Analysis of the Oroville Dam Disaster. Parent comment
Wikimedia has a nice picture of the area:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Oroville...
The emergency spillway is on the far left, it is lower than the rest of the dam. So if water is flowing over the main structure, it's anyway already failed.
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Wikimedia has a nice picture of the area:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Oroville...
The emergency spillway is on the far left, it is lower than the rest of the dam. So if water is flowing over the main structure, it's anyway already failed.