On: Oroville Dam: Feds and state officials ignored warnings 12 years ago

[lucaspiller]

> with flows of only 6,000 to 12,000 cubic feet per second

In case anyone needs something to put that into perspective, an Olympic-size swimming pool holds around 35,000 cubic feet (1 megalitre) of water.

[wiredfool → lucaspiller]

And the 100000cfs on the main spillway is 5 million lbs/sec.

Edit: oops. Off an order of magnitude.