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OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) Crews working around the clock atop a crippled California dam reported progress Tuesday in repairing the damaged spillway and reducing the water level by at least 8 feet at the reservoir canada goose outlet jackets that has been central to this farming region for a half century.

Helicopters carried giant sandbags and cement blocks from a staging area on the south side canada goose store of the canada goose black friday sale Oroville Dam toward the stricken spillway on the north side. Crews operating heavy equipment loaded rocks and boulders into https://www.ferienhaus-starnberger-see.de dump trucks, which carried them over the dam and dumped them on damaged canada goose outlet black friday portions. Evacuations remain in place.

Gov. Jerry Brown asked for direct federal assistance for an estimated 10,000 displaced residents.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer canada goose outlet toronto factory said President Donald Trump keeping a close eye on the situation and closely with state officials.

situation is a textbook example of cheap canada goose why we need to canada goose outlet pursue a major infrastructure package in Congress, Spicer said at news conference in Washington.

State Department of Water Resources officials hope to reduce the lake level to 860 feet by Thursday, when storms are expected to bring more rain, spokesman Chris Orrock said. The level was 884 feet on Tuesday morning.

The lake that for five decades has brought residents holiday fireworks and salmon festivals now could bring disaster.

in cheap Canada Goose our lives did we think anything like this would have happened, said Brannan Ramirez, who has lived in Oroville, a town of about 16,000 people, for about five years.

The Gold Rush town in the Sierra Nevada foothills, some 70 miles northeast of Sacramento, is nestled near the foot of the dam, which was official canada goose outlet completed in 1968 and at 770 feet is the nation tallest. Houses and churches are perched on tree lined streets near the Feather Canada Goose Outlet River. Old, ornate Victorian homes sit alongside smaller bungalows.

knows to go there for the Fourth of July, evacuee Crystal Roberts Lynch said of the lake. there festivals wrapped around the salmon run. mother of three, who has lived in Oroville for 10 years, was staying at a Red Cross evacuation center in Chico.

Local businesses, including one that sells supplies for gold panning, dominate a downtown area that spans several blocks. A wide range of chain stores sit a short distance away along the main highway.

lake brings in an enormous part of the economy for the town. It definitely is a people catcher, said Brannan Ramirez, who has lived in Oroville for about five years. get people from all over the country. and towns farther down the Feather River also are in danger.

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The region is largely rural, with its politics dominated by rice growers, orchard operators and other agricultural interests. The region is dogged by the high unemployment rates endemic to farming communities. There are large pockets of poverty and swaths of sparsely populated forests, popular with anglers, campers and backpackers.

For now, canadian goose jacket it all at the mercy of the reservoir that usually sustains it, and provides water for much of the state.

anything, we would have thought that the dam would have been constructed better, Ramirez said.

Ramirez said it was frustrating when he heard reports that emerged Monday of complaints about the potential danger that came from environmentalists and government officials a dozen years ago.

Those warnings canada goose described the very scenario that was threatening to unfold, though they were dismissed by state and federal regulators who expressed confidence that the dam and its spillways could withstand serious storms.

The acting head of the state Department of Water Resources said he was unaware of the 2005 report that recommended reinforcing with concrete an earthen spillway that is now eroding.

not sure anything went wrong, Bill Croyle said. was a new, never having happened before event. didn buy the explanations.

know that somebody did not pay attention to the warning signs, she said. in charge was not paying attention. It was their job to pay attention to what was going on with the dam. the weekend, the swollen lake spilled down canada goose outlet reviews the unpaved, emergency spillway, which had never been used before, for nearly 40 hours, leaving it badly eroded.

Officials defended buy canada goose jacket the canada goose outlet in usa decision to suddenly call for mass evacuations Sunday, just a few hours after saying the situation was stable, forcing families to rush to pack up and get out.

was a lot of traffic. It was chaos, said Robert Brabant, an Oroville resident who evacuated with his wife, son, dogs and cats. was a lot of accidents. It was like people weren paying attention to other people. Jerry Brown said Monday that he sent a letter to the White House requesting direct federal assistance in the emergency, though some federal agencies have been helping already.

Brown has had harsh words for President Donald Trump, and the state has vowed to resist many of his administration efforts.

But the governor said canada goose outlet at a news conference that he that California and Washington will work in a constructive way. That my attitude. There will be different points of view, but we all one America. Kelly Remocal said she believed the public officials working on the problem were everything so people don freak out. honestly don think they going to be able to do it, fix the problem, she said. requires a little more than a Band Aid. At this point, they have no choice but to give it a Band Aid fix. canada goose outlet parka 2019 The Associated Press. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.