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Anons, recall the Oroville Dam spillway failure a couple years ago? That dam is minutes away from Paradise, yep the CampFire of 2018.

Butte County is Trump country and the cabal hates it.

Back in 1966 the State of California (Jerry Brown's dad, Pat) promised the town of Oroville resort development if they would consent to the Dam.

The Dam was built and the State of California fucked the community and never delivered the resort development.

Oroville residents submit petition to ‘hold DWR accountable’ to federal agency

OROVILLE — A petition to “hold the DWR accountable” was hand-delivered this week by Butte County Supervisor Bill Connelly to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in Washington, D.C.

The Feather River Recovery Alliance is the name of the nonprofit run by local volunteers who organized the petition. It evolved from the local advocacy group Oroville Strong which was affiliated with the Oroville Chamber of Commerce.

Specifically, the Feather River Recovery Alliance is asking FERC to not reissue a license to the state Department of Water Resources to operate the Oroville Dam until terms of the agreement are renegotiated, including a new recreation plan.

At the press conference, Connelly said he was in Washington, D.C. this week as part of a lobbying effort related to the Camp Fire and the Oroville Dam crisis. With regard to the Feather River Recovery Alliance petition, he said he is mostly interested in seeing locals get the recreation they deserve.

“It’s been a very negative impact on our community that they (DWR) have never developed the recreation they promised,” he said. “They’ve argued to the FERC that if we don’t build it, they won’t come. Therefore they aren’t coming, so we won’t build it.”

“I don’t like the fact that DWR and the State Water Contractors have bogarted all of the people in the county of Butte and the city of Oroville and not honored their commitment they made back in 1966 to take care of this community, to provide recreation, to provide some sort of compensation for having taken away the water … and given nothing back,” Harriman said.

Genoa Widener, who handles outreach for the alliance, said the most important thing to her going forward was independent oversight of the dam.

“It’s great the spillway has been rebuilt. It’s bigger and better than ever, according to DWR,” Widener said. “But all the problems that were present before 2017 with the spillway are still present with the rest of the dam: aging materials, aging technology, lack of maintenance and the human factor, which were all covered by the independent forensic team’s report of why the spillway collapsed.”

A little over two years ago, on Feb. 12, 2017, about 188,000 downstream residents were given a one-hour evacuation order out of fear the damaged spillway could fail. Though the worst fears never materialized, and the spillway has been entirely reconstructed with additional oversight now in place, Robert Bateman said that community trust in the department remains low.

“At this point it’s very difficult for people living below the dam to trust the DWR,” said Bateman, one of the group’s organizers.

https://www.chicoer.com/2019/04/05/oroville-residents-submit-petition-to-hold-dwr-accountable-to-federal-agency/