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Oroville Dam sees turnover with private contractors
ABC10, KXTV ^ | Feb. 17, 2017 | Staff

Posted on 02/18/2017 8:14:25 AM PST by Texas Eagle

Private contractors at the Oroville Dam have had to fire some of their workforce because of issues ranging from positive drug tests to violating the state's Department of Water Resources' social media policy.

There has also been turnover because of unqualified workers.

Private contractors hired to work on the dam have to vet their own employees, according to DWR spokesman Chris Orrock, who noted that no state employees have been let go because of these reasons.

Crews are being brought in as needed, as space is tight, DWR Acting Director Bill Croyle said.

(Excerpt) Read more at abc10.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; contractors; dam; lakeoroville; oroville; orovilledam; turnover
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To: jcon40

For every heavy equipment operator, there are probably 20 other employees.


21 posted on 02/18/2017 9:01:00 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Texas Eagle
violating the state's Department of Water Resources' social media policy.

I'm taking this to mean that the engineer on YouTube video who said "stay the hell out of Oroville" has been fired.

22 posted on 02/18/2017 9:02:07 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

Yes thats pretty much exactly whats happening, plus there a situation of any drones taking video, rumor is to radio jam them, and the very few boots on the ground folks live streaming are being run off by the sheriff.

What really stinks is a load of so called experts on youtube who steal footage, use old footage, think concrete dries like paint, says a rock truck can haul 40,000 tons!

And you have one dude running up and down a levee in town saying he is at the base of the dam trying to get paypal donations.

This the decision, if it goes there is no time to get out, its like the situation of an approaching asteroid to hit earth but official’s will NOT allow news of it to surface. Let them die not knowing is getter than them dying fighting,looting,killing for shelter, yeah, like many movies we have seen. Thats it.

I have told all my family to NOT go any where near the valley. Its very bad without dam problems. Its out of control flooding, just pick up survivors later. This is a bad one, the whole state now with the southern storm hitting right now.


23 posted on 02/18/2017 9:41:21 AM PST by Daniel Ramsey (Thank YOU President Trump, finally we can do what America does best, to be the best!)
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To: WENDLE
ILLEGAL ALIENS!!!!!

Bingo!

24 posted on 02/18/2017 9:46:21 AM PST by depressed in 06 (60 in '18.)
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To: Daniel Ramsey

I’ve seen so many who keep going back and making comparisons to Katrina, and have been refuting them, it’s a red county, an agricultural area, the people are nothing like in New Orleans.

I guess what you describe actually is a valid comparison. though, just under different circumstances with a somewhat different threat looming.

Watch and learn, this is how authorities behave when SHTF time rolls around, red or blue, doesn’t matter.


25 posted on 02/18/2017 9:53:06 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Texas Eagle

I am confused, are you saying that these non government workers that may, and probably are using drugs while working on critical public infrastructure should not be terminated because of the extreme difficulty in terminating a union government employee? Well sorry I can’t agree, I have worked on construction jobs with drug users and they are too damn dangerous to have on a job, sooner or later someone gets hurt bad and too often it’s not the user.


26 posted on 02/18/2017 9:57:57 AM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Mastador1

No. I am saying it should be just as easy to terminate a state employee.


27 posted on 02/18/2017 10:00:10 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Texas Eagle

Wonder if the state is making timely payments to all of the contractors.

It would be a shame to see the state slow-walk the payments for services rendered.


28 posted on 02/18/2017 10:00:40 AM PST by ptsal
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To: Texas Eagle

Well no argument there.


29 posted on 02/18/2017 10:01:58 AM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: PAR35

Do they mean likes on Trump pages and selfies with MAGA hats?

What is their social media policy?


30 posted on 02/18/2017 10:05:05 AM PST by Toughluck_freeper
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To: ptsal
It could be worse than that.

I have a friend who won a contract to do some work at Monterey County airport.

AFTER the work was done, he received notice from some government agency (it's been 10 years or so, so I don't remember exactly who), that he would have to go back and pay his employees prevailing wage for the work they performed. He was paying them something like 20 dollars an hour plus meals and lodging.

He had to go back and pay them something like 50 dollars an hour plus per diem and other such perqs.

Long story short, he ended up losing money on the project.

31 posted on 02/18/2017 10:05:23 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Its to me the better if not best part of California, i used to live there.


32 posted on 02/18/2017 10:06:42 AM PST by Daniel Ramsey (Thank YOU President Trump, finally we can do what America does best, to be the best!)
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To: Texas Eagle
California's "leaders" should be judged by how they treat their tax-paying, law-abiding citizens, which, in practical terms, is by how the state controllers manage California's finances, infrastructure, laws and border,

Unfortunately, that's not what happens. Even as their mistakes become evermore blatant and deadly, the progressives keep getting elected and re-elected, while California's law-abiding tax payers clean up and pay for their messes.

It is said that the rain falls on the just and the unjust and Californians, after such a long and severe drought, have been praying hard for rain.

Apparently, their prayers are being answered and now it's going to rain hard!

In these days of dramatic Climate Change, it's best just be thankful its only a sudden rain and not a Soddom rain, because that's the hardest rain of all, doncha know.

33 posted on 02/18/2017 10:17:55 AM PST by GBA (Here in the matrix, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.)
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To: GBA
Dang...that should have been "Sodom" rain. Sorry about that.

My switch to this little iPad is not going as well as I had hoped it would.

34 posted on 02/18/2017 10:23:13 AM PST by GBA (Here in the matrix, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.)
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To: Texas Eagle

The dam will be the final judge here. If it collapses, it will cause a re-alignment of the political situation in California. Not quite enough to turn the state red - they need Trump to clear out the Illegals and fix the voting system for that - but enough to at least give Republicans a chance at winning once in a while.

It is only when the masses out there realize that the Dems have been living in the house that “daddy built” without maintaining it for decades, will they realize that Dems cannot be trusted to run the state. They are not there, yet, but if that dam collapses, they will be there.


35 posted on 02/18/2017 10:56:19 AM PST by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: Texas Eagle

If he bid the job on an RFP that indicated no requirement to pay prevailing wage and/or the project didn’t utilize federal funding it should have been easy to invoice for the additional PW costs and associated overhead.

If he didn’t catch that it was in the RFP then he was SOL...


36 posted on 02/18/2017 11:30:05 AM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: BobL

The dam itself is not going to collapse and is in no danger of doing so.


37 posted on 02/18/2017 11:31:35 AM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Axenolith

Yea, good point. I’m not following too closely - it’s more that the lake may drain. But that will still have ramifications, should it happen.


38 posted on 02/18/2017 11:36:51 AM PST by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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