[The Westerner]

This is heartbreaking to read. I was a child in Calif schools when these dams were built—this giant achievement to supply water in wet and dry years to the breadbasket of the world, Calif's farms and orchards. We studied the aqueduct system in a unit called “Conservation”. And we were proud to be citizens of this great state.

The work you put in to this project with hopes of some brave soul sticking his neck out to tell the truth—won't be enough to overcome the faux-American, lockstep bureaucrats who run the dams. 60 years ago this type of non-serious mind in charge would be unthinkable! Now it's the norm. But thank you for this valiant effort which is spellbinding to a non-scientist who didn't know how dams are made and maintained. It's a beautiful application of engineering.

[meyer]

I’m not sure if this has been seen and cited, but this is a “fourth” document that seems to have since been redacted, or otherwise made ‘hard to find’...

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:cuQfdTUEeVsJ:www.water.ca.gov/oroville-spillway/pdf/2017/BOC%2520Memo%25204.pdf+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

I think that ER333 has already cited it, but it’s maybe nice to have for future reference.