I think we here will always call it Moonbeam Canyon. I suppose if enough of us did that, it wouldn’t matter what the DWR called it.
Isn’t there a saying that in every Tragedy there is a thread of Farce that runs through it?
We have a terrible tragedy here. A monumental public work, gone sour at a time when it is needed and the playing out of all the flaws that make it poorly able to withstand the tests of time and the mistakes of men that brought those flaws about. California is a wonderful part of our great nation and the hard times of administrations with no minority party effective oversight has made it less than humble and less than concerned for by we observers.
Nevertheless, these are our countrymen and our western brother of a state and no one wishes for disaster.
We observe and cannot help but tip our hat to the sad farce, but we do so knowing that such can befall us just as easily. I will always call it Moonbeam Canyon, and I hope the Dam endures so that I may do so.