AP Exclusive: Oroville Dam managers made missteps in handling crisis

According to this AP investigative piece, California Department of Water Resources (DWR) was not on top of protecting people during the Oroville Dam crisis and was lax in notifying local officials about the emergency.
 

Among other things, the dam's federal and state overseers overestimated the durability of the two spillways. And in public statements during the emergency, they failed to acknowledge — or perhaps recognize — that while they were busy dealing with one crisis, they were creating a possible new one.

During the darkest hours of the emergency, the fear was that if the hillside collapsed, "it was not whether people would die, but how many would die," Honea recalled.


Why would we trust these same agencies to build and operate the DeltaTunnels? Did you know the California WaterFix application shows only 10% of the tunnels design completed? Plus,they will figure out via "adaptive management" how much water to take as they go along? If Jerry Brown wants to protect California's water supply, maybe he should clean house at DWR and the State Water Contractors.

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