Well, looks like we’ve all taken a holiday break from all of this. “Calm before the storm” so to speak? Might CA mercifully get by this winter without too much rain?
Although lower rainfalls this year might give extra critical time of another year to alleviate and fix this impending disaster, IMO, DWR has more than proven itself to be too self-serving and unwilling to effectively acknowledge the root causes of stage one failure nor plan effective, long-term, permanent remedies.
What choices do the people of CA have against this monstrous and stupid CA government that has brought Oroville and environs to the brink?
Since it appears that, like Congress, the legislative body of CA doesn’t want to risk their political hides by stepping into this mess, one alternative could be a grass-roots special election with a Proposition or Initiative to change or make a law putting the remedy in the hands of a select, grass-roots-chosen Citizens’ Committee of top non-political engineers and scientists who would have the power of law to decide the best course and means from here on out, taking the issue out of the hands of derelict DWR while keeping them liable up to this point.
I vote for ER333 and maybe Robert Bea, the UC Berkeley professor and risk management expert, to be on that committee.
I think even California bureaucrats have to pause and collect their thoughts when it becomes apparent that they have move heaven and earth, spent a half a Billion dollars and just traded old problems for new and more complex problems.