**Only 12 inches thick, the concrete spillway is heavily patched, at some places by clay stuffed into holes below the concrete.**
What rocket scientist decided that would work?
Oroville 3/22/17 Update: Rockbolts and Repairs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idm-w4Bxa-g
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The cost to repair all of this damage is expected to be in the tens of millions of dollars”
Chump Change for a State like California.
We currently SPEND $69,315,068 DOLLARS Every Single Day just to keep the 3 million Illegal Aliens in this State.
President Trump should tell California to GO POUND SAND when they call asking for money.
Californians bear an enormous fiscal burden as a result of an illegal alien population estimated at almost 3 million residents. The annual expenditure of state and local tax dollars on services for that population is $25.3 billion.
http://www.fairus.org/publications/the-fiscal-burden-of-illegal-immigration-on-california-taxpayers
So 1 or 2 days of Illegal Alien funding will cover the ENTIRE COST EASILY!!
The concrete must not have been the best quality.
They should have over engineered this like the concrete dams.
It was to take a pounding but failed over the years with many cracks appearing and those that did the repair thought adding some grout would fix it when they had to know the foundation was giving way underneath and the top structure was collapsing into the void. The spillway is another issue we need to know how the foundation is holding up.
Now everyone should worry about the huge earthen dam.
Did they do a quality job or a slipshod one?