Well, certainly a moment of genius.
What can we do to christen it and make it official? I mean, they’re not planning on filling Moonbeam Canyon are they? Would seem like a useless exercise plus we need something to memorialize this whole Oroville Dam thing.
They will have to fill the portion of it where the spillway has to bridge back over the top of it and enough of it to keep to spillway supported. What is left could certainly be named Moonbeam Canyon but somehow, I think the Department of Water Resources for the State of California won’t sign on to naming that geologic feature in that manner.
The only thing that might help is to get reporters calling it that in questions. Or to get them asking about it. “Hey, George, what is this Moonbeam Canyon we keep reading about?”