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Yeah, you're right about the American. No real place for that to "fail gracefully". And a surprisingly large amount of water flows down into that watershed.
I'd like to hope between the Nimbus dam and Folsom dam, they could control releases. And they could blew a levee up north to relieve pressure on the Sac so that if it joined a raging American river, it wouldn't be that bad.
And forgot to mention the 2 huge bypasses into the causeway on the Sac are REALLY hard to overwhelm (pic below).
Overall, I feel pretty safe in West Sac with the new double levees. Of course, one's gotta wonder what a flood like the Great Flood of 1862 would do (where it dumped 10 feet of water on California over 43 days). Yikes...
Caveat: I'm a weather/disaster nerd and NOT an expert. Take all of this with a grain of salt. And here's a before/after pic of the Sacramento Bypass (about 4 months apart).
https://preview.redd.it/1n93xvnptded1.jpeg?width=2880&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=49809895d220f406645f507768b3ba4fd15f1fbf
- Post Date
- 7/24/2024, 3:01:33 AM
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