Uh, its run by the government, state and fed. Any questions? Bound to fail. Not if, just when. And, then, the coverup dance begins.

Pretty much the way that the !@#$%$#@! Government runs everything.

We would have to institute criminal negligence statutes that included elected officials, as right now they are largely immune to such. I agree with the idea as it would bring greater accountability and might act as a deterrent to them broadening their liability by expanding government.

Public officials have a long history of standing by, wringing their hands, and crying all is well when it comes to the condition of dams and public safety in this country. Maybe if some of them were brought to trial for outright lying to the public and not issuing warnings on a timely basis this "ostrich head in the sand" approach will stop.

1 Note to self: Do not live downhill from a dam.
#2 Note to self: Do not trust anyone who "controls" a dam.
#3 Note to self: Stay out of California altogether.

In the last 30 years they destroyed most of the dams in Maine, including exploiting the ploy of Atlantic Salmon as the excuse. They drove Georgia Pacific out of the state with constant harassment and litigation.

FERC requires periodic "relicensing" of hydo facilities, and the viros used that as a hook in the early 1990s under Clinton-Gore to delay and obstruct the continued use of the GP (previously Great Northern) privately owned hydro electric power production for the mills, which has been there since the late 1800s.

The viros couldn't destroy those dams but extorted land and "conservation easements" throughout the privately owned woods and ran up millions of dollars in "legal fees" contending with FERC and the pressure groups' abusive litigation and "compromise".

The lead pressure group in that particular assault was the Appalachian Mountain Club (a wealthy and politically connected pressure group lobby which, like the Sierra Club, poses as just a hiking club).

Much of the paper industry in Maine is now gone, a "conservationist" agenda dating back to the 1940s and earlier with the Rockefeller influence at Acadia. This is the same agenda for Federal control that resulted in Obama's National Monument decree in Maine last summer and they are after millions of acres more of private property across northern New England.

The Salmon surrogate, dams, and financial strangulation of industry and rural towns are just some of the tactics they use to extort the land.

True dat. Remember the huge kerfuffle back in the 80's about the salmon and all the calls to breach the dams?

The viros have a different approach: leave the silt and drain the water to give it back to Nature. They hate dams and have been getting them destroyed across the country for decades.

Nice article. Thanks!

Here is a whole new can of worms .Maintenence and the inability of the leaders to be conscious of its benefits.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-po...

Hi Blair,
My post eight hours before the evacuation has peaked my interest in the administration of safety warnings ,denials and reactions and precautions at Oroville Dam. The first course of action was the evacuation of the salmon from a hatchery 2 days prior to warning and evacuating the humans . https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post...

Not if they can keep the coverup going. High speed trains to nowhere as monuments to themselves are better PR when properly spun.