Posted on 02/13/2017 2:11:18 PM PST by nickcarraway
It’s a state project. Oroville dam is owned by the California Department of Water Resources.
In 1945, the California Legislature authorized an investigation of statewide water resources. The work, conducted by the Division of Water Resources (DWR’s predecessor) under the Department of Public Works, led to the publication of three important bulletins: Bulletin 1 (1951), “Water Resources of California,” a collection of data on precipitation, unimpaired stream flows, flood flows and frequency, and water quality statewide; Bulletin 2 (1955), “Water Utilization and Requirements of California,” estimates of water uses and forecasts of “ultimate” water needs; and Bulletin 3 (1957), “The California Water Plan,” plans for full practical development of California’s water resources, both by local projects and a major State project to meet the State’s ultimate needs.
The Division also completed studies that culminated in the Feather River Project presented to the Legislature in 1951 by State Engineer A. D. Edmonston. The initial proposal included a multipurpose dam and reservoir near Oroville complete with a power plant, an afterbay dam and power plant, a Delta Cross Channel (i.e., a peripheral canal), an electric power transmission system, an aqueduct to transport water from the Delta to Santa Clara and Alameda counties, and another aqueduct to carry water from the Delta to the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California.
http://www.water.ca.gov/swp/history.cfm
Part of the cost allocated to flood control were paid by the federal government under federal flood control law. http://www.water.ca.gov/pubs/planning/california_water_plan_1998_update__bulletin_160-98_/b16098_vol1.pdf pages 3-42, 3-43
FAKE NEWS.
The lack of maintenance to the main spillway is the cause of ALL the problems. The level of the lake would never have reached the emergency spillway if the flow through the main had not been cut back.
This is purely penny wise pound foolish negligence by the state.
The reason the emergency spillway is in use is because the main spillway has huge hole in it and cannot be opened up to full flow.
The issue is Jerry Browns refusal to properly repair the main spillway damage that became obvious in 2013
The Oroville dam is only slightly smaller than the Mosul Dam in Iraq and the possible failure of the Mosul Dam has been pitched as disaster worse than a nuclear war that could kill up to 1.75 million people.
The money went to the sanctuary cities in CA
Stupid environmentalists.
If the dam collapses, then the greenies will celebrate a victory! And count the number if fishies they saved.
Editorial A disaster at the Oroville Dam could easily become a crisis for Los Angeles too
February 13, 2017, 12:00 PM.
Southern Californians have been drinking from the Feather River — and washing in it, flushing with it and sprinkling it over their lawns — for nearly a half century without giving it much thought, so the emergency at distant Oroville Dam provides a jolting reminder of our dependence on the wetter, northern part of the state. A disaster there could easily become a crisis here.
Oroville is the linchpin of the State Water Project, the massive engineering feat that brings Northern Sierra water from the Feather River to the Sacramento, through the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, into the California Aqueduct, over the Tehachapis and to our faucets."
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-oroville-dam-20170213-story.html
Time for the lib state and local CA governments (who are on the receiving end of the water) to pay up for repairs and upgrades instead of money for unnecessary trains and foreigners here illegally!
Who cares about the Mosul Dam. The Oroville Dam will kill Americans if it fails. As I said, this is Gov Jerry Brown's problem and he neglected to do anything about it in 2013 when the main spillway showed a large hole in it. He's had almost 4 years to do something and let it get worse.
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