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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)
Guess they thought maintenance could be kicked down the road?
No money for critical infrastructure but plenty for illegal aliens and %70 billion for a train.
That said, Mister Jerry Brown owns this debacle.
It is his legacy (besides that sanctuary state thingy.)
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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.
Can we express the equivalent of that figure in terms of a number of non-essential union-thug bureaucrats (annual salary)?
Should be viewed as an example of wealth transfer to CA’s illegal aliens...
Pretty good chance that Kiewit is over their head on this project, I've seen it before with other engineering-construction companies on larger projects than this that turned into dumpster fires of cost overrun and lagging quality control forcing excessive do-overs and questionable shortcuts.
Also, a doubling of the cost? Give me a break. Every construction project has unforeseen situations pop up, which usually increase cost rather than decrease. This is what contingency funding is set aside for. However, to have a doubling of cost, it seems likely to me to be some combination of the quality of engineering and estimating up front and/or the business strategy of pricing things to low ball then make up on expensive change orders. Change orders really can turn cost control and schedule control upside down. You make one engineering change and then that cascades into redoing the engineering for 10 items downstream that are affected, which cascades into changing a 100 items downstream on the procurement and scheduling. What a game......
Expect $1.5 billion (+) before it’s done.