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Originally Posted by xr6-FTW
The main reason why that spillway is eroding is because of what I saw on tv, it seems as though the main spillway developed a massive sink hole which forced the closure of that section to release water, so what they done was use the backup emergency spillway which they've probably never really used which is basically crumbling away. Hearing that on tv gives you a picture in your head where you can imagine the americians saying "what's the point of upgrading that section of the dam, we haven't used it in how ever long its been", so when this freak amount of rain has hit and things have gone critical, the emergency spillway is now critical of breaking apart.
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There has been a massive amount of rain and melting ice up stream as well, so a lot more water than you think. I saw on the news it was something like 200 Olympic swimming pools per second going through the spillway.