[stuckagain]

Your rant is just a rant. Mentioning HSR is some kind of dogwhistle. In what way is HSR mismanaged and how is that related to this dam?

The events at Oroville have been exceptional and it's strains belief that you, Random Internet Guy, saw it all coming. The amount of water that has fallen in the Feather watershed this year is without precedent in recorded history. The spillway worked fine until a gaping hole appeared in it. Nobody foresaw that a massive sinkhole would destroy the main spillway.

[troisx]

Actually plenty of people foresaw a problem with this dam and multiple other dams in CA. I have a friend who worked on dams in CA 20 years ago who told me that they weren't getting the maintenance and upgrades they needed and it was only a matter of time before there was a failure. And he never even worked in this particular dam.

[skmurphy]

the design flaw is not what happened to main spillway but that the emergency spillway flows over a dirt hillside that will quickly collapse once used in the situations where it will need to be. And not just Random Internet Guy but many others including Sierra Club noted this more than a decade ago.