"nightjar" wrote in message
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On 04/08/2019 21:13, Brian Gaff wrote:
Yes but its really low pressure and if you want to move a lot at a time
there is no benefit to using a siphon. Incidentally, where ARE they
putting
all that water?
Brian


You can see some of the outlet pipes emptying onto the concrete spillway,
on the opposite side from the failure. Other pictures seem to show more
outlets running straight into a waterway.

I may have missed something in the earlier new reports, but why are they
having to *pump* water out of the reservoir? Is there a problem with taking
water out in the normal way? I think it's a canal feeder reservoir. Can the
canals not cope with a greater flow of water into them than was originally
intended? Are the water courses that the pumps drain into separate from the
canal network - is the canal not also fed from them and the spillway?

I don't understand about blocking the streams that feed into the reservoir?
Won't water just build up behind the temporary "dams" that the Chinooks are
making, causing them to burst catastrophically at some stage in the future?