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http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article150278687.html

May 14, 2017 4:00 AM
‘Lethal arrogance’? Oroville Dam crisis sprang from Pat Brown’s towering ambition

By Ryan Sabalow, Dale Kasler and Christopher Cadelago

America’s tallest dam was built from earth, stone and concrete – and the towering ambition of Gov. Pat Brown.

Sixty years before a crisis at Oroville Dam sent thousands fleeing for their lives in February, the late governor brought an almost evangelical zeal to erecting the structure that would hold back the Feather River to deliver water to the parched southern half of the state.

Hundreds of pages of state archives, oral history interviews and other documents reveal a portrait of a man hell-bent on building Oroville and the rest of the State Water Project. Determined to leave a personal legacy, Brown misled voters about the State Water Project’s costs, ignored recommendations to delay Oroville’s construction and brushed aside allegations that substandard building materials were being used at the dam. His administration steamrolled past a land-speculation scandal, relentless labor strife and the deaths of 34 workers to get Oroville built on time.

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FR is back up!!!

Just catching up - they’re spilling 20,000 plus 5000 going through the Hyatt, but today (Friday), the plan is to close down the spillway and let the Hyatt do all the heavy lifting (errr, dropping). The Hyatt will be picking up as the #1 Penstock is back in service, and the River Valve Outlet System should provide an additional 4000 cfs as needed.

From CA DWR:

http://www.water.ca.gov/news/newsreleases/2017/051717_news_release.pdf

DWR wants to keep rainfall CEII secret - To prevent against unauthorized rain dances?

New SacBee article "Angry public, insistent media uncloaking Oroville Dam repair secrecy"

DWR wants a "do-over" on how they communicate with the public about Oroville Dam…..Ok. Let's see what this "do-over" looks like.

SacBee reporter: "It would be refreshing to see this state agency figure out how to be more open with the public even as it works to ensure security of the dam. For the past couple of months, officials have regularly refused to release information, citing federal security regulations designed to protect us from terrorism.

Well, here's the new "transparency" => DWR just filed a FERC document May 11, 2017 under CEII secrecy for…wait….for….it…….water. Yes, water.

DWR's secrecy filing infers they believe that terrorists may gain access to unauthorized sources of rainfall (big clouds), make these big clouds rain & snow, then make the snow melt quickly, and then cause a Probable Maximum Flood.

Oh the Hugh Manatee!!!

Intelligence reports must have identified a threateningly effective new "rain dance" that may be perpetrated. Certainly this high risk threat justifiably establishes a CEII secrecy on the new "rain" calculations.

…Tongue => Cheek… Roll eyes… Roll eyes again…

(note: this post is intended to be light hearted, yet it is baffling how rainwater is considered a terrorist threat. No offense intended to "rain dance" or any heritage related to such).

==SacBee article: http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/joyce-terhaar/article151397137.html

=Quote: Officials say they are trying to balance security concerns with transparency. “We’re still trying to hide our vulnerabilities, we don’t want to make our vulnerabilities obvious to everybody, but we also realize you gotta share some information, otherwise folks start thinking you’re keeping secrets,” said David Gutierrez, the retired head of DWR’s Division of Safety of Dams, whom the agency recently hired as a consultant." = end quote

DWR is afraid of "rain dancing" terrorists. Must keep PMF information & discussion CEII secret.