Posted on 02/14/2017 3:18:34 PM PST by US Navy Vet
The Oroville Dam — at 770 feet, America’s tallest — is on the verge of failing. And Sacramento, which has been fiddling for decades while Rome burns, is running for cover. This isn’t just any dam; it’s the primary storage facility located on the Feather River for the State Water Project, the state-owned conveyance system that provides drinking water to more than two-thirds of California’s population.
If the dam were to fail, it could inundate not only the city of Oroville but numerous other communities downstream, including Yuba City, Marysville and even West Sacramento.
At the moment, the emergency spillway is being used for the first time since Governor Ronald Reagan approved its construction, and almost 200,000 people have been evacuated.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Dams don’t vote Democrat.
LOL!
It’s a disaster...
sad really!
Wonder if the people in Oroville would rather have illegal aliens & a train or a dam?
Forecast calls for more rain Friday. Man the lifeboats.
“But...but I had to build a choo choo?” Governor Moonbeam
It’s like one of those bad 1990s disaster movies. Pierce Brosnan as the engineer who tries to warn Gov. Brown, played by Bryan Cox.
Oroville is hill and dammation.
Now he gets most of the blame, even if he only deserves a small amount, and LA plus the other stakeholders will pay 20 - 100x the fix cost for a complete redo of both spillways.
Though they might not have to pay for digging a bypass canal while repairs are in progress. That expense will be paid by those downhill from the reservoir.
On many boards right now, the Democrats are blaming Bush for this and base it on a report from 2005. But they fail to acknowledge the 2.7 billion dollar bond Jerry got passed in 2014 that allocated funds to repair and maintain dams in California. As far as i can find on google, that 2.7 billion is already gone and nothing was done
“What’s Governor Jerry Brown doing?
The same thing he’s been doing for decades — obstructing progress. California has been so busy defying President Donald Trump in order to protect illegal aliens from deportation that it forgot to do the things government is supposed to do, like maintain infrastructure. Governor Brown is now going hat-in-hand to beg the Trump administration for emergency funds.”
BEST paragraph in the entire article, which, by the way, should be read by everybody in this country.
The evacuation is going to create litigation against the state. If the dam washes out anything, it will need to be repaired. People down stream from the dam probably have just had their property values drop and will want compensation.
Meanwhile, California has engaged with a pis#ing match with the Trump Executive Branch and senior Democratic California Congressional folks have annoyed a Republican Congress. With talks of Calxit or leaving the Union and fighting federal immigration rules.
Normally, California would expect that the federal Congress and taxpayers would pay for all of this. Somehow I don't see Trump agreeing to that or the Republican Senate and House.
Good luck moonbeam!
“Jerry Brown’s California Legacy is a Dam Failure”
What else would you expect from Gov. MedFly?
Illegal aliens before infrastructure.
Right now, there are over 100,000 people in shelters, hotels and friends’ homes. Pets and livestock have been left behind. NObody is telling these folks when they can come home. If the authorities want to keep them out until after Friday’s storms, that makes 7 days living hand to mouth on an hours’ notice to get out. But there’s rain coming next week, too.
When do the citizens get to return to their homes?
The evacuation order was lifted temporarily with a warning that people may need to evacuate again.
Probably when the looters have finished up.
C'mon Breitbart, get it right. The dam was planned, approved and constructed during the Pat Brown admin, Reagan was simply there for the ribbon-cutting in 1968, his first year in office.
Thanks, Daisy - first I heard. Good news!
Democrats assumed that the dam was too big to fail.
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