by Bob Walsh
A 584 page report was released on Friday on the near-catastrophic failure at the Oroville Dam last year. The report blamed a "complex interaction of relatively common physical, human, organizational and industry factors" for the failure of the main spillway that cascaded into the forced evacuation of almost 200,000 people immediately downstream from the dam last year.
The spillway chute deteriorated over 50+ years, due to, among other things, shitty maintenance and poor geological structure under the spillway. This condition was known at the time of construction but largely ignored.
The report also capped on DWR for being unduly insular and not tapping into existing and expanding knowledge within the industry to improve its own technical expertise.
Sounds like the good old IF WE DIDN'T INVENT IT AND IF WE DON'T KNOW IT WE DON'T NEED TO KNOW IT that often pervades unaccountable government bureaucracies. At any rate they are unaccountable until the excrement hits the air circulation device.
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