OROVILLE DAM MANAGERS MADE MISSTEPS IN HANDLING CRISIS, AP REPORTS
http://abc30.com/weather/oroville-dam-managers-made-missteps-in-handling-crisis/1891590/
From the article:
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“There’s always been an understanding that, man,
you don’t want to use that emergency spillway,
because when you do, it’s going to be a mess,”
said Jerry Antonetti, a retired engineer
who was a construction inspector for
one of the dam’s power plants
when the dam was built in the 1960s.