President Bush and Gov Arnold ignore the warning and said no to Oroville Lake upgrade in 2005

[itsrobert]

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/12/oroville-dam-feds-and-state-officials-ignored-warnings-12-years-ago/

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Why am I not surprised that Republicans think that maintaining

infrastructure is even remotely important?

[AJT]

2. Any reason Governor Brown

didn't revisit it?

[busterbrown]

3. Good Point... The other point is

Gov. Brown one of those Dems. who never strays to far from the middle.

[lostnfound]

5. It was a 50-year license renewal. The time to do it was 2005.

No one would go looking for big projects to spend money on in the midst of a big (GOP-induced) budget deficit once the license was issued.

[C Moon]

4. I would guess part of the reason is because we have been suffering through

an historic drought for the past many years—that most of the state is still not fully recovered from.
Addressing a damn overflowing during a huge drought, was most likely put on the back burner—if it was brought to his attention at all.