Posted on 02/13/2017 10:15:49 PM PST by nickcarraway
Most of this article up to the end was sane. However, federal infrastructure should not be used to prop up incompetence at the state level. California already has allocated water project funds. Where is that money going? An audit should be required before any money is given to California.
"Old" has nothing to do with it. Just stuff it, CNBC.
Hang on for a few minutes, and I'll tell you what I really think ...
All this is, is carrying water for Brown and the party that has run the state for the last 60 years.
They are desperately trying to shove this off on Bush.
Earlier today they were talking about 12 year old warnings the Feds ignored.
Democrats never take ownership.
Water districts collect user fees and taxes from every user every month. From evacuation stats, that’s about 200,000 users in the Oroville area. State tax and bond dollars are also allocated for water resource management. Where’d the money go, Mrs. Brown?
Yeah, yeah, ok, California’s water storage system sucks and its dams may be inadequate and dangerous, but, by golly, it has a dandy bullet train in the planning.
The 12 year old proposal to modify the emergency spillway is a red herring.
At issue is the Jerry Brown refusal to properly repair in 2013 the damage and holes in the MAIN spillway that has failed.
Don’t forget the dam was mostly built in Moonbeam’s father’s reign, although Reagan was in at the very finish. When the libs try to prevaricate by saying the dam is old, keep the blame in the family!
The infrastructure is old...let’s build a choo-choo to nowhere. California made its’ bed.
No, it isn’t the 2013 fiasco. It’s not including the known repair requirements in the 2009 “shovel ready” $800 billion porkulous spendathon
Forget stupid things like dams. I need to get between Shafter and Bakersfield on a high speed train.
Nick, the other part of the story is that Southern California is loosing it’s access to Colorado River Water that it was able to take because Arizona wasn’t using it, now it is. Add to that the lawsuit that LADWP lost regarding their taking inordinate amounts of water from the Owens River because it was destroying Mono Lake. So now, with an ever-increasing population (with most due to illegal aliens), the LA Basin finds itself without needed water. And with one man, one vote, my guess is that it will at least try to vote itself a bigger share of the water coming from places like Oroville Dam.
“Forget stupid things like dams. I need to get between Shafter and Bakersfield on a high speed train.”
May I ask you what are your “picking” specialties?
Oroville dam does not serve us folks here in Oroville. It serves the Metropolitan Water District in Los Angeles. All of the water in North State is to serve our lord and masters in Southern California. The Metropolitan Water District didn’t want to spend any money fixing up their dam dam. Ae have been fighting the DWR for years for monies promised us to turn our area with a dam we didn’t want into a recreation area. More money was spent fixing up a single small dam/rec area in So Cal in one year than was spent the entire lifetime for the Oroville Dam for similar amenities.
We are rightly ticked off. And the Governor tonight did not help with his cavalier attitude.
CA government decided that you don’t need to fix a leaky roof on a sunny day. It needed that money for illegals, transgender awareness, and trains to nowhere.
That ancient concept has been superceded by those in Californika who are smarter than the rest of us... and act as if they are smarter than the ancient who first said that quote.
The money goes to years of environmental reviews, after which all proposals are denied or made prohibitively expensive.
Trump throwing money at CA for infrastructure would be useless for the above reason.
God is not mocked, but Californians have been trying to do just that for quite some time.
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