Who needs a runway when you can have a " spillway" ?

有了" 滑道" ，谁跑道呢？

Crews in California worked to repair damage done to the spillway of the Oroville Dam.

加州作人员正努力维修奥罗维尔大坝泄洪道。

The reservoir also has an emergency spillway.

水库设有应急溢洪道。

The Mi-26 helicopters equipped with special spillway devices, VSU-15A were involved.

配备特殊溢洪道装置的 Mi-26 直升机 VSU-15A 参与其中。

As for how the spillway damage started, the  issue was uplift forces.

至于溢洪道损坏是如何开始的，问题在于升力。

Erosion in its spillways threatened cities that are miles downstream, with possible flash flooding.

溢洪道的侵蚀威胁着下游数英里的城市，可能引发山洪暴发。

CNN's Paul Vercammen spent Sunday night reporting on how workers planned to reinforce the emergency spillway.

CNN 的保罗·佛卡门 (Paul Vercammen) 在周日晚上报道了人们计划如何加固紧急溢洪道。

Spillways are often the  most complex and expensive components of a dam, and that is definitely true at Oroville.

溢洪道通常是大坝最复杂、最昂贵的组成部分，奥罗维尔确实如此。

The  service spillway has a chute that is 180 feet or 55 meters wide and 3,000 feet long.

服务溢洪道有一个宽 180 英尺（即 55 米）、长 3,000 英尺的泄洪道。

This spillway is capable of releasing nearly 300,000 cubic feet  or 8,000 cubic meters of water per second.

该溢洪道每秒能够释放近 300,000 立方英尺或 8,000 立方米的水。

It has two spillways, passageways where extra water can flow out of the reservoir.

它有两个溢洪道，额外的水可以从水库流出的通道。

So, all dams need spillways to safely release  excess inflows and maintain the level of the reservoir once it's full.

因此，所有水坝都溢洪道来安全地释放多余的水流，并在水库满水后保持水位。

The service spillway had drains consisting of perforated pipes to relieve the pressure of  water flowing beneath the slabs.

服务溢洪道设有由穿孔管组成的排水沟，以减轻板下方流过的水的压力。

Cracks and joints in a concrete  spillway have an effect on the flow inside.

混凝土溢洪道中的裂缝和接缝会影响内部的流量。

It was an earthfill embankment dam  with two spillways and a powerhouse.

这是一座土堤坝，有两个溢洪道和一个发电厂。

At Oroville, the  emergency spillway consists of a concrete weir set one foot above the maximum operating  level.

在奥罗维尔，紧急溢洪道由混凝土堰组成，位于最高运行水位上方一英尺处。

Emergency spillways are just that: intended for use only during a rare  event where it's ok to sustain some damage.

紧急溢洪道就是这样的：仅在可能造成一些损害的罕见事件中使用。

And the water in the Oroville spillway is moving a lot faster than this.

奥罗维尔溢洪道的水流速度比这快得多。

Modern spillway  designs have lots of features that help to avoid what happened at Oroville.

现代溢洪道设计有很多特点，有助于避免奥罗维尔发生的事情。

As it flowed across and down the natural hillside, water from the emergency spillway began to channelize and concentrate.

当水流过天然山坡并流下时，来自紧急溢洪道的水开始疏导和集中。