http://www.chicoer.com/article/NA/20170706/NEWS/170709827
DWR hosting community meetings in July
By Staff Reports
Posted: 07/06/17, 5:18 PM PDT | Updated: 3 days ago
Sacramento >> The state Department of Water Resources announced Friday another series of community meetings will take place this month in Oroville, Marysville and Yuba City.
The purpose of the gatherings is to provide residents with an update on the Oroville Dam spillways recovery project.
Each meeting will have “a similar agenda, format and content,” with leaders and experts with the organization available for questions, according to the press release. All start at 6 p.m.
Below are the dates and locations:
• July 17 – Oroville Municipal Auditorium, 1200 Myers St. in Oroville
• July 19 – Caltrans District 3, Sierra Nevada Room, 703 B St. in Marysville
• July 24 – Boyd Hall, 1895 Lassen Blvd. in Yuba City
Cindy Messer is DWR’s new acting director, following former acting Director Bill Croyle’s retirement announcement a couple weeks ago, effective July 1.
I suspect the likely reason for the "timing" of this announcement** is that it is one day after the news broke about "Blasting being Halted" (story broke July 5). DWR insisted that the schedule would be kept for Nov 1 completion. Yet days later, in Juan Browne's youtube in the live press conference, there were comments made about working beyond Nov 1 if conditions were right. The media picked up on this. They pressed on the issue of impacts to the schedule - especially since damage had been done to the upper spillway and remedial action was required.
If anyone is going to these meetings, they should print copies of DWR's response letter to FERC in post 3,952. Ask DWR how or why do they have to "teach" their engineers about QCIP in weekly team meetings because they didn't follow the QCIP (Blasting where they shouldn't have) AFTER they were corrected 14 times by FERC on prior QCIP issues.. Or, print out post 3,778 and ask DWR why their engineers were so incompetent regarding the QCIP to where FERC had to correct DWR on fourteen issues. Read the FERC letter. It is clear that DWR engineers were clueless about a QCIP (in one item, DWR was trying to copy the requirements from Kiewit instead of doing it themselves). Ask DWR, if their engineering has such expertise, why can't a straight forward engineering Quality Control Inspection Program be followed? Or be understood?
Post 3,952:
FERC Document - Blasting Damage Concerns at Connection of New Spillway to Existing Upper Spillway
Post 3,950:
Post 3,778:
**DWR press release July 6, 2017 *created 1:34pm, Chico-ER posted 5:18PM. http://www.water.ca.gov/news/newsreleases/2017/070617.pdf