[env-trinity] 'Lethal arrogance’? Oroville Dam crisis sprang from Pat Brown’s towering ambition

[Kier Associates]

As a whippersnapper in the CA Resources Agency 51 years ago I wrote a speech for the Secretary’s (nee ‘Administrator’) presentation at SF’s Commonwealth Club in which a I included a much-used boast of the day ‘When man reaches the moon and turns to view Earth he will be able to discern only two of the works of man - the Great Wall of China and the California Aqueduct’

 

‘Somehow doesn’t thrill me like it used to

 

Bill

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Interesting story about Oroville Dam and its construction at:

 

‘Lethal arrogance’? Oroville Dam crisis sprang from Pat Brown’s towering ambition <http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article150278687.html> 

 




	
		
 



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‘Lethal arrogance’? Oroville Dam crisis sprang from Pat Brown’s towering am...


California Governor Pat Brown’s zeal in erecting the Oroville Dam in the 1960s left a mess for his son, current ...

	

 

 

Tom Stokely 

Salmon and Water Policy Analyst

Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations and 

Institute for Fisheries Resources

530-524-0315 

tstokely at att.net 

 

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