But we have a high speed train being built somewhere down south. Never mind the dam. Oh and the railroad track behind my house has no trains on it either because of a derailment going over the flooded area south of Sacramento. The infrastructure is all deteriorating, but hey we have illegal felons to protect.
You are so right. We are not applying the flood control bond funds that California voted for but we are blowing billions a year on the insane train to nowhere thanks to our idiot governor. And, yes, the infrastructure is deteriorating, like the tracks in Elk Grove, because infrastructure doesn't vote. Left-wing left-coast elites, CTA lobbyists, community organizers, lazy state employees, prison guards, crazy environmentalists, handout queens, and illegals do vote and override the needs of the state as a whole and specifically the needs of the conservative counties. And that's because democrat politicians don't mind screwing up California's future as a whole state so long as they can featherbed their future by shoving state money at the special interest and grievance industry groups that will give them $1M/year do-nothing jobs once they term out.
And guess what they will do after this to cater even more strongly to the environmentalist wacko vote? They will not say that we need more upstream storage and shore up existing facilities to improve flood control and align our storage capacities and demand to the 5-6 year demonstrated wet-dry cycle. No, they will say that, see, dams are dangerous; we should tear them all down.
The Global Warming zealots in DC and Sacramento claimed there would never be anymore large snows in the Sierra Nevadas. This is their fault for neglecting the dams.
Pray America woke