Posted on 03/08/2019 10:39:14 PM PST by blueplum
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The federal government has rejected $306 million in reimbursements for California's repair of damaged spillways on the nation's tallest dam, a state agency said Friday.
California has so far requested about $639 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for the Oroville Dam repairs, said Lisa Lien-Mager of the state's Natural Resources Agency. FEMA has agreed to cover $333 million.
That's less than about a third of the $1.1 billion the state's Department of Water Resources said it took to repair the dam. Spillways on the Oroville Dam crumbled and fell away during heavy rains in February 2017...
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It isn’t the dam. It is the spillway. IMO, the underside of the spillway was riddles with ground gophers, which weakened the surface the spillway was built on.
Also- California passed a multi-BILLION $$$$ Water bond just a few years back. WHERE did that money go???
There NEVER seems to be any audits of money that California spends.
“There will be lawsuits, which will get lawyers paid — and little guys stiffed.”
LawMakers =
Folks who have the power to make laws that benefit themselves FIRST, any crumbs left over we get...
I wouldn’t give them a dime after they blew through all that money on Jerry Brown’s train tracks.
ROTF! We're talking California, fer cryin' out loud. How could they not?!
Do you think that Kiewit performed the work without progress payments and that, while they are still there doing late phase work and extras, they did not get their Retention payments for the work done on the earlier Phases?
Its California general funds that are going to take the big hit, not Kiewit.
Excellent - thanks for posting. What airport does the pilot fly out of and where does he live?
We had a thread on the Oroville Lake crisis and repairs that lasted for almost a year. Probably 5,000 posts and a lot of in-depth detail about the history and the detail of the problems and repairs.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3524221/posts?page=1
You can follow the Lake Level here:
http://oroville.lakesonline.com/Level/
be sure to click the 2016 box to add the curve of water level the year prior to the Feb 2017 crisis.
They are running the power plant discharge full blast to try and avoid using the spillway as they only have a partial fix and are kicking the can down the road.
Good point
Increase the domestic water rates in SoCal.
It’s a concrete spillway.
It’s supposed to be there.
Thank you.
Yes I’m somewhat kidding about letting the Oroville dam break.
However, it is symptomatic of the poor planning that California has done re dams over the years. I did some administrative work on one of the most infamous CERCLA environmental cases of all times, “Stringfellow”.
Say that name to environmentalists and environ. lawyers and they either howl, scream, or run for cover. It was a classic situation where the govt of California went beserk in suing everybody and their grandmothers for engineering mistakes they forced on the builders of that hold damn, which broke, and poured contaminated waters all over a good part of California downstream from it.
Oroville seems to have had some of the same design flaws and the recent storms/floods proved it.
I think the movie “Chinatown” had a lot more truth in it then Calif. politicians (even the honest ones) want to admit to the public.
After this highspeed train financial fiasco (where billions were wasted or diverted off to crooks - companies and politicians), all of California needs to totally reassess their water preservation and diversion practices and come up with something that works.
Just ask Rep. Deven Nunes (R-Ca) how the corrupt state politicians literally destroyed his agricultural district by withholding badly need crop waters from them.
California is a beautiful state. I travelled the westcoast highway from Santa Cruz/San Mateo down to LA (back then we couldn’t get off a ramp to LA because we couldn’t SEE them because of smog) so we went East thru the desert ( in a rainstorm of all things).
There is nothing wrong with the state except it is run and ruined by Democrats/Marxists. Until that is addressed, there will be more Stringfellows, Oroville Dams, lack of water, and absolute corruption.
I lived in the central valley in the ‘70s and had many rancher friends, many assimilated Mexican friends, and was immersed in the Ag community there. The coasties suck and have sucked the life out of California just as the progressive commies are poised to do to the entire U.S. Twice since 2000 California has put forth water bond initiatives of $20 billion dollars each. That money was raided by Sacramento and very little went to water projects. There is no water shortage in Cali, there’s a shortage of honesty.
“Foothills of Northern California” is what I have heard him say in an interview.
The guy who builds your chimney mortars in a chunk of glass which he leaves until he gets paid.
Then, he climbs on the roof and drops a stone down the chimney.
You guys should get some D-10s and take your work back if the deadbeats that run Mexifornia don't cough up the cash.
Don’t worry Spec’,
The repair contractors are already paid.
Have you ever done any work for the State of California?
Partial payments.
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