Well folks, this is an update of Lake Orville in the situation with the dam And just to be fair Because that's what we do around here. This is the official word Today coming out of the butte County Sheriff I've recently heard rumors and concerns expressed about the Orville dam in its spillway Given what our community has been through in the past couple of years I wanted to provide an update on what I and my team have been doing to monitor the situation We have been monitoring the situation and activities at the Orville dam throughout the reconstruction of the spillway and the emergency spillway I personally visited the site just days prior to the last use of the spillway and then right after DWR closed the gates I had staff present at the site during the last spill to monitor I've talked with DWR Kuwait and members of the Army Corp about the new spillway and its performance. I visited the site again on Friday, May 10th I spoke to engineers and hydrology experts. I question them and About their ability to manage the inflow based upon all that I don't believe that there is a current imminent threat if I come to believe there is a problem that puts the safety of our community In imminent danger, I will not hesitate to alert people. That's the sheriff of you county All right, so that's the official word the sheriff is not concerned, but I have some questions now I've been watching some other shows and Hearing a lot of commentary and reading comments folks and the consensus is with a lot of people that these live cams are not really live and that they they started looping a few days ago Well, I'm not even sure how long ago, but they started doing three-day loops and So these cams are not live there is no live cam cam available to watch the spillway or watch the work that's being done on top of the dam So my question is if that's true, why did they cut off the live stream of Orville dam so that's suspect in itself And we really should be concerned as well folks is because this will be the first big test of this News spillway so to say that you're not concerned and everything is going to be all right When the news spillway and the construction has not been Tested yet Well, it is going to be tested properly for sure coming up very soon Lake Orville dam right now the level is 889 feet a little over that the Failure point in 2017 was a little over 900 feet And unless they do some Major spillway usage here soon We're probably going to hit that 900 feet rather quickly And that is because The next week This should be a substantial amount of rain in the lake or of all area So indeed Tomorrow starting tomorrow Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday One day off on Monday the 20th and then again more rain in the forecast on the 21st so Obviously that's going to impact The lake And let's talk about the Sierra Nevada a little bit I didn't know this until recently, but there's been records snowfalls in Sierra Nevada believe I read somewhere in February I believe there were six feet of snow in 24 hours six feet of snow in 24 hours And the winter school there's a winter storm watch issued for Sierra Nevada Here in the next couple of days the National Weather Services issued a winter storm watch for The Sierra Nevada above 5,000 feet from Wednesday afternoon through Thursday And that's supposed to dump an additional six inches to three feet Of snow in the mountains Now folks Think about when all of this record snow starts melting And pouring down into the lakes What level are the lakes you had so what I'm saying folks is this is not doom and gloom and I'm not You know not this is not fear porn This is bringing up some facts that that spillway and that damn Is going to be tested big time and if I was living there I'd want to know that I want to know the facts and I would be keeping my Eyes and ears peeled for any information About what could affect the spillway So you know I to me honestly, I think it's irresponsible to make a statement that you know Everything is going to be okay and you're not concerned or you don't feel like there's any imminent danger When you know all of this stuff is in the forecast and the snow hasn't really even started melting and we're having Spring snowstorms And that snow is eventually going to melt And increase the level of the of the lake so That's the latest folks I'll keep you updated Just continue prayers for the people that could be affected By an incident But if they do know of anything I would hope to hack That they would inform the people immediately But to evacuate a few hundred thousand people on a dime is a pretty heavy task Anyway god bless you folks take care We'll keep you updated and we'll talk to you soon You