I reported on the threatened breach of the Oroville Dam in California during a set of rains in 2017. I noted valuable lessons should have been learned as a consequence of the evacuation of theGovernor Jerry Brown was listening only to scientists who believed in man-made global warming, assumed that the drought would last forever, and wanted to divert resources to vanity projects and supporting illegal aliens.
…”Due to recent rainfall, the City of San Diego, the owner of Lake Hodges Dam and Reservoir, has been using Santa Fe Irrigation District facilities to release water from Lake Hodges,” the Santa Fe Irrigation District told CBS 8 in a statement. ” But if you speak with other district officials, who have water rights to Lake Hodges, they’ll tell you the city of San Diego did not maintain the dam properly for decades. “Had there been increased maintenance of the dam it would have extended the life of the dam,” said Seth Gates, an administrative director with the Santa Fe Irrigation District.