California's Lake Oroville Main Spillway Severely Damaged/Eroded. Oroville Dam's Recently Reconstructed Main Spillway Fundamentally Flawed

Question - what would DWR have to gain by allowing the dam to fail? Spending millions of dollars to fix the issues from 2017 only to have it kill people if it failed? Serious question..no shade intended.

That is a very legitimate question.

First of all, the original bid from Kiewit was under 300 million. The job cost 1.1 billion by the end. Plenty of respectable people with insider knowledge and contacts, said during the construction that lots of money was going down the fraud and corruption holes. I could look for links but don't want to take the time. It's common for lowball estimates to run over, but 700 million over? Plenty of people had a good reason to fix that spillway and it had nothing to do with letting water out of the lake.

Secondly, I should not have equated DWR entirely with the green agenda to "re-wild" much of California including central valley, and send food production to central and south america. Many of DWR may be older conservatives who reject man made climate change garbage. Those old guys are the insiders that leaked truth on occasion.

There are guys out there on top of what is happening. Paul Preston of the New CA succession movement had old podcasts about what was happening in CA, and water being shut off to Americans until they abandon the land, which is then sold to the Chinese. Pelosi was mired in this treason. David Dubyne of Agenda 2030 talks about it (he is against it). It is an agenda to move most of the population east of the Mississippi, and the ones to the west into urban centers. Farming and ranching would be abolished.

Its to save the planet and save the children and whatever else their lying demons speak into their minds. China gets a free pass to dump everything into the air, but God forbid CA uses nitrogen fertilizers. Farming in the Netherlands is taking a huge hit, you can google it. The globalists want it all over Europe, as well as here, and Oroville must stop watering Central Valley ( unless they want it for urban water). The food supply must be curtailed sharply to control the masses.

Yup, conspiracy theory. I believe it all.

Could you speak more on the fraud and the corruption? as the fraud and the corruption confined to DWR employees or someone else? (meaning, someone else was getting a kickback by being fraudulent and DWR was negligent in not catching it).

There are conservatives within DWR. But anyone who is of that political stripe keeps it under wraps because the majority of people are liberal. Could you share how you know this and of what rank these old guys were/are (division chiefs, deputies, etc.)? Thank you.

what elevation for gate failure???

813' is the level at the bottom of the gates.

Expect leakage from that elevation and higher.