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FERC Document - Blasting Damage Concerns at Connection of New Spillway to Existing Upper Spillway

Hi 21twelve, I did some digging and located the original FERC letter to DWR discussing the Blasting issues.

Looks like DWR slipped up again on the Quality Control Inspection Program (QCIP) that DWR is responsible for maintaining full procedural observance of issues & plans.

The full letter is posted below. What is interesting is that DWR is reassuring to FERC that they will insure that "new staff" and "key personnel" will have QCIP review sessions during construction team meetings. This is "code" for, "we are green in this experience" and will "train and remind" as we go.

I suspect that Kiewit is fuming in the background. They are the ones that are being guided by DWR via recommendations by the BOC as "new defective" issues are being discovered in the Upper Main spillway (i.e. the recent saw cuts of the slabs in the drains revealed horribly corroded rebar to where there wasn't any steel left). Kiewit has to move quickly on construction developments to keep to schedule and is critically dependent on the QCIP guidance & restrictions that DWR MUST be fully competent with.

FERC document: 20170626-5055(32231416) Page 1

FERC document: 20170626-5055(32231416) Page 2

FERC document: 20170626-5055(32231416) Page 3

So much has happened this week! Thanks for updates. Has anyone contacted the gmail address of the new “investigative” team? I recommend to them, if they are dedicated professionals, that they read this entire thread. Recorded in it are copies of documents the DWR later scrubbed. This thread is a major forensic investigation done by top professionals of the dam business. So let the good engineers have a look.

I am not a scientist in this field only a citizen who despises bureaucracy and its petty, pilfering, politicized mini-minds! Like the ones who let our great dam and aqueduct system fall apart like this. Mankind has created works of sheer genius and as the creative ones pass on, the nihilists who hate Mankind and our beautiful orderly well thought out system of reservoirs are now, today, at Oroville, working to stymie the excellent professionals. If I sound enraged, I offer no apology. Even though I was raised in America's Marxist loving public schools, I spent my twenties studying the other side of the story—the truth. See my tagline.