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Editorial A disaster at the Oroville Dam could easily become a crisis for criminal sanctuary city Los Angeles too

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Southern Californians have been drinking from the Feather River 
— and washing in it, flushing with it and sprinkling it over 
their lawns — for nearly a half century without giving it much 
thought, so the emergency at distant Oroville Dam provides a 
jolting reminder of our dependence on the wetter, northern part 
of the state. A disaster there could easily become a crisis here.

Oroville is the linchpin of the State Water Project, the massive 
engineering feat that brings Northern Sierra water from the 
Feather River to the Sacramento, through the Sacramento-San 
Joaquin River Delta, into the California Aqueduct, over the 
Tehachapis and to our faucets. This season’s storms have filled 
the dam to capacity, so managers diverted water onto a concrete 
spillway to keep it from topping the earthen dam itself. When 
damage to the spillway was spotted, water managers switched to 
an unpaved, and previously unused, emergency spillway — but the 
water releases carved up the hillside, sending debris down the 
Feather River, threatening further erosion and prompting the 
evacuation of more than 100,000 residents downstream, including 
in Yuba City, Marysville and once-remote towns and cities that 
are increasingly becoming commuting suburbs for greater 
Sacramento.

California is an extremely engineered environment. Decades ago, 
the natural state of affairs in years like this one had 
previously been flooding in the Sacramento and San Joaquin 
valleys. Since 1960, the State Water Project has helped to 
protect Northern California cities, towns and farms from 
floodwaters while providing usable water to Central Valley farms 
and Southern California homes. Ratepayers here, as elsewhere, 
help keep the system in repair. The project binds Californians 
to each other, despite the difference in precipitation between 
the wet north and the dry south. A catastrophe at Oroville Dam — 
for example, spillway-loosened detritus blocking flow to the 
delta — could cause a water-supply emergency here, despite all 
the rain.

Engineers (and taxpayers and ratepayers) have provided Southern 
California useful redundancy in water delivery systems. Los 
Angeles gets water via William Mulholland’s Owens Aqueduct and 
later extensions, and the region relies heavily on Colorado 
River and Lake Mead. But import of Owens water has been limited 
to mitigate environmental damage east of the Sierras, and the 
water level at Lake Mead remains so low that delivery cutbacks 
may be on the horizon.

There will likely be lessons learned about how the state should 
manage water from the emergency at Lake Oroville, but it is too 
early at this point be certain what they are. Meanwhile, 
Californians will have to keep the names and distant places — 
the Feather River, the Oroville Dam, the Owens, the Colorado, 
Lake Mead — in the forefront of their minds as we make decisions 
to sustain, supplement or abandon the water projects that have 
made the state what it is today.

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Lyhand11
California is the land of earthquakes and idiots. Go there and 
you will not see an earthquake.

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Bill In The Desert
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Bill In The Desert
The problem for Los Angeles, and the rest of California, is not 
the crack in the Oroville Dam.
It is, and has been for decades, the crack in damn Sacramento.

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AltRighteousVengeance
"A disaster at the Oroville Dam could easily become a crisis for 
Los Angeles too..." One can only hope!

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longshoreman
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longshoreman
Who needs water when we have a bullet train?

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Leftyalldaylong
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Leftyalldaylong
A Delta bypass water conveyance structure is necessary and it 
will eventually be built but it probably will only occur after a 
disastrous dike/levee leveling event like this Oroville disaster 
could precipitate or from an earthquake in the Sacramento/SF 
area. Once that occurs, the CVP and State Water Project canal 
pumps at Tracy will suck salt water and the transport of fresh 
water south to Los Angeles will not reoccur for perhaps 5-10 
years during the construction of such a water conveyance... » 
more

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Liberalism_Is_A_Mental_Disease
We sent men to the moon and back nearly 50 years ago.

We can't make use of the 18 quadrillion gallons of water right 
off the California coast?

Malibu limousine Liberals say, "Obstruct and Obfuscate!"

That's "Progressive" folks!

<cue the Looney Tunes theme song>

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Lyhand11
@Liberalism_Is_A_Mental_Disease The majority of Californians are 
pretty much idiots.

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mike.gorbell
As important as this is, it's not as important as high speed 
rail.

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Bill In The Desert
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Bill In The Desert
@mike.gorbell: I like your sense of humor. Like a speeding 
bullet.

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Itxassou
Wow, just think, all this water is going to wash away and drown 
all those endangered worms and fishies that your Governor 
Moonbat has been nurturing with multibillion conservation 
projects. All that bio-diversity flushed away in one fell swoop. 
Makes one want to weep (snicker)

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Aaron B Brown
@Itxassou another clown living in Arkansas talking about 
Northern California

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Lyhand11
@ Aaron B Brown All over the U.S. people know how stupid the 
majority of Californians are.

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Liberalism_Is_A_Mental_Disease
Thanks for educating the Islamic Terrorists on their next target.

Will the smelt fish survive?

News at 11.

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Aaron B Brown
@Liberalism_Is_A_Mental_Disease another deplorable moron heard 
from

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sj1968
@ Aaron B Brown What a witty reply. How long did it take you to 
come with that gem?

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Tim Conner
How many of us who live west of the 102nd meridian have read 
this? It should be required reading in high school AND college.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56140.Cadillac_Desert

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http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-oroville-dam-
20170213-story.html

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More than a decade ago, federal and state officials and some of 
California’s largest water agencies rejected concerns that the 
massive earthen spillway at Oroville Dam — at risk of collapse 
Sunday night and prompting the evacuation of 185,000 people — 
could erode during heavy winter rains and cause a catastrophe.

Those agencies included the Metropolitan Water District of 
Southern California, which provides water to 19 million people 
in Los Angeles, San Diego and other areas, along with the State 
Water Contractors, an association of 27 agencies that buy water 
from the state of California through the State Water Project. 
The association includes the Metropolitan Water District, Kern 
County Water Agency, the Santa Clara Valley Water District and 
the Alameda County Water District.
  

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