=== Article clip: "Paradise >> A letter asking to delay relicensing of Oroville Dam to the Department of Water Resources has gained two more signees."
"The Butte County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to be included. The town of Paradise will be signing the letter as well."
"In a letter to the Oroville Recreation Advisory Committee, Paradise Mayor Scott Lotter said, “Even after repairs have been completed, and infrastructure rebuilt, the safety of the dam and the lake itself remain in question for many who would choose to recreate on Lake Oroville.”
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List of groups asking for a delay to date: "Relicensing delay request letter to FERC, spearheaded by the Oroville Chamber of Commerce - signatories: Paradise, Butte supervisors, the cities of Biggs, Gridley, Marysville, Wheatland and Yuba City; Feather River Recreation and Parks District; Oroville Association of Realtors; Sutter County Board of Supervisors; Live Oak Chamber of Commerce; Yuba-Sutter Chamber of Commerce; Yuba Sutter Economic Development Corporation; Yuba-Sutter Realtors Association; Sacramento Valley Landowners Association; American Whitewater; River Partners; Friends of the River; California Sportfishing Protection Alliance; Citizens for Fair and Equitable Recreation; Oroville Rotary Club; Oroville Downtown Business Association and the Oroville Recreation Advisory Committee."
Butte supervisors, Paradise support letter delaying Oroville Dam relicensing (article): http://www.orovillemr.com/article/NB/20170725/NEWS/170729850
Bureaucratic bungling on Oroville Dam bodes ill for future California projects
By Dan Walters
July 26, 2017 12:01 AM
Slowly – but surely – we are learning that the near-catastrophic failure of Oroville Dam’s main spillway wasn’t truly caused by weather, even though the state claims that in seeking federal aid for repairs.
Rather, it resulted from poor engineering and construction when the nation’s highest dam was rising more than a half-century ago as the centerpiece of the State Water Project, and poor maintenance since its completion.
The latest evidence is a huge report by a team of engineering experts, headed by Robert Bea and Tony Johnson of the University of California’s Center for Catastrophic Risk Management.
It concluded that the dam’s fundamental flaws were compounded by decades of neglect by the state Department of Water Resources (DWR) and the Division of Safety of Dams (DSOD).
“The gated spillway was managed to failure by DWR and DSOD,” the damning – no pun intended – report declared.
One of the most abysmal failures cited was “the recently exposed existence of DSOD inspection reports dating back to 1989. For reasons yet to be fully determined, identified deficiencies were either ignored, treated as low priority, not acted upon or a combination thereof.”
The 124-page report added that “complacency, lack of industry standard level maintenance, and possibly pressure from internal DWR management and external State Water Contractors’ representatives to hold down maintenance costs were key contributors.”
Read more here: http://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/political-notebook/article163498393.html#storylink=cpy
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