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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1000503)	2/16/2017 11:39:52 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 1575120

If a big dam went, every town below it along the Sacramento River would flood, prolly all the way down to the Bay. This is from a disaster drill. It's not the blow-out we see in movies, but only a maximum controlled release at twice the flow from Oroville. Catastrophic failure would be much worse. Practice makes safety: 20 agencies coordinate for mock Shasta Dam attack The Shasta Dam scenario began with the two mock bomb blasts followed by the "Red Cell" terrorist group taking over the dam in an effort to free one of their fellow marijuana growers from prison. Holding three people hostage, they threatened to flood the Sacramento River by rolling open the drum gates atop the dam. Those gates hold back the nearly full lake. To show their seriousness in the drill, the Red Cell twice pretended to release water from the dam. Each of the dam's three drum gates can release up to 66,000 cubic feet per second when the dam is full ? 198,000 cubic feet per second in all ? while the river's channel can only handle 79,000 cubic feet per second, said Pete Lucero, reclamation bureau spokesman in Sacramento. Such a terrorist attack could flood parts of Redding and the Central Valley. archive.redding.com