http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article146429894.html
April 25, 2017 12:01 AM
Fixing Oroville Dam will cost hundreds of millions. Who should pay the bill?
By Jim Miller
jmiller@sacbee.com
The damage has been done and the repair contract awarded. Yet more than two months after damaged spillways at the Oroville Dam prompted authorities to order the evacuation of 188,000 people, the question of who will ultimately pay the bill remains murky.
How much will be the responsibility of homeowners, businesses, farmers and other customers of the more than two dozen local and regional agencies that contract with the State Water Project? The 700-mile network of canals, pipelines and lakes, including Lake Oroville, brings water mostly from Northern California to parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, Central Valley and Southern California.
What will be the cost to state taxpayers, who have approved billions of dollars in borrowing to pay for flood prevention and dam-related work, most of which has already been spoken for? Will the federal government have a role after the Trump administration’s recent approval of $274 million to cover emergency repair costs from mid-February through May?
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Your post brings up the cost to water users.
I don’t know if posters around the country realize that for a three bed room home without kids and only minor landscape irrigation, the water bill in the east Bay area is over $500.00 a month.
That is without a sewer add on or monthly trash fees of other extraneous costs sometimes added to local water bills. Domestic Water only.
Doesn’t matter which government entity. It will always boil down to you and me paying for government screw-ups even though govnement never admits to screwing anything up.