Folsom dam received millions to update, and the update was not needed.
The 2009 stimulus package funded millions of dollars for safety improvements for a dam in California that was in “good shape,” but not to the Oroville Dam that is now on the verge of a spillway crisis.
Nearly 200,000 residents north of Sacramento were ordered to evacuate after fears that erosion would cause the emergency spillway to fail, which would lead to “catastrophic flooding“ from a 30-foot wall of water.
Despite more than a decade of warnings about Oroville, there is no public record of the country’s tallest dam receiving any of the more than $34 billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act sent to California for infrastructure projects.
Over $22 million in stimulus funds did go toward safety improvements to the Folsom Dam, which was described as in “good shape” at the time the grant was awarded in 2009.
Excerpted full story of Obama and Brown wasting our tax $’s.
http://freebeacon.com/issues/obama-stimulus-funds-went-california-dam-good-shape-not-oroville/
PS: The money went to liberal voting areas not to areas which didn’t vote for Obama.
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Its all about filling the unions’ coffers.
Oroville dam is only having a democrap incompetence crisis.
You can’t keep a reservoir so nearly full in the middle of winter. This is just another of many Jerry specials.
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Thank you folks.