The professor has initiated contact.. in apology (a new report will be created on the attribution). In his communication, an altruistic motivation was revealed, on his part for all of his work. I picked up these insights: he has been doing this as a personal project with minimal resources. His altruistic motivation is driven from the same in my part. We've both been through failure dynamics that have affected lives.
The benefits of the report have become even more fruitful as fresh press articles - essentially are confirming (and stating this in their articles) the report's findings against the newly released BOC documents by DWR. The public, the press, and even the engineers will move forward for the better, although in the shadow of the current crisis & its pre-crisis evolvement.
All of this, I believe, is mainly due to the collective efforts of postings & discussions here, the other forum(s), and especially due to the the work & expertise by the professor. The "heat" applied by the combined work, and well directed & correct analysis report with sharp wording of culpability/truths, essentially forced DWR to relent and release the BOC documents (although some sentences/paragraphs were redacted).
This, I understand. The engineering data was a bit hard to follow.
I’m grateful to you experienced hands who have given us time, knowledge and expert judgement —in a spirit of old-fashioned type American charity.
I hope that one consequence of the Oroville dam debacle (which I’m assuming isn’t over given spring snow melt) is the end of Moonbeam’s train to nowhere.