Posted on 10/19/2017 6:55:28 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
OROVILLE — The cost of repairing the crippling damage to Oroville Dam’s spillways caused by last winter’s fierce storms has almost doubled, state water officials said Thursday.
Kiewit, the Nebraska-based construction firm that has the main contract to rebuild the main spillway and emergency spillway at Oroville, the nation’s tallest dam, estimated in its winning bid in April that the work would cost at least $275 million. But the price tag has now grown to at least $500 million, said Erin Mellon, a spokeswoman for the Department of Water Resources.
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Jaaa... like there's gold in them thar open ended gubamint contracts..
and to think it all started with a few little cracks.. they have pictures.. Jaaa. Oh vell.
Oh come one, you knew this was coming.. nothing is cheap in California.. except the politicians..
“When Kiewit put in the bid, only 30 percent of the project had been designed,” she said. “When you get on the construction site, there’s a lot more information that you glean.”
The gubmint is taking competitive bids when they know the bidding companies don’t have all the info they need?
So who is paying—California or the feds? California is broke and the feds are broke, but only the feds can print interest bearing fiat money.
find a hill blast it to fill dirt status and repair the dam.
Yep...standard government “scope creep”. Been there dealing with not-too-bright government employees not knowing what they need to ask for.
Work continues to repair the main spillway at the Oroville Dam in Oroville, Calif., on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017.
Hundreds of construction workers are working to rebuild the damage from February's storms which caused the evacuation of 188,000 people.
(Laura A. Oda/Bay Area News Group)
IIRC California. This is a dam that was designed and built by California in the 60’s.
No can do. Any hill they might choose will have to be analyzed for endangered species for fifteen or twenty years, after which it will be found to be the one and only habitat of some unique species of puffing titgrouse, and therefore absolutely untouchable.
Easier to bring the dirt by barge across the Pacific Ocean from Indonesia, or perhaps by jetliner. Two or three hundred thousand trips ought to do it.
Guess they thought maintenance could be kicked down the road?
This photographic series depicts the progression of the repair of the Oroville Dam spllway after
heavy winter rains heavily damaged it. (Courtesy Califorania Dept. of Water Resources)
if that weren’t exactly what will be done, and therefore tragic, it would be funny.
Not even weather folks could have anticipated the deluges that fell,, it certainly revealed where all the weaknesses are in the dam and state gubamint. They had an acting head over the Department of Water Resources at the time, may still have for all I know. MoonBeam has been nothing but a disaster for the state.. droughts, budgets, priorities, foresight, too involved in stuff elsewhere .. We needed solid business types who could run the state like a corporation, instead we got a Hollywood substitute climate high priest and a retread.. not what Dr. Feelgood ordered for this ailing state.
No money for critical infrastructure but plenty for illegal aliens and %70 billion for a train.
It’s all in the wording. Language is put in the contract that protects the contractor from unknown and unforeseen circumstances.
That said, Mister Jerry Brown owns this debacle.
It is his legacy (besides that sanctuary state thingy.)
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We just spent $3400 having our eaves repaired that got rain soaked and water damaged. The contractor said it looked like our rain gutters just couldn’t handle the amount of water we had last year and the water backed up under the eaves.
The Hoover Dam project cost $49 million in early 1930’s dollars.
If you believe US Fed.gov inflation statistics, that is $850 million in today’s dollars - for the entire project.
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