The Next Oroville: California's Ailing Levees Could Produce a Catastrophe 'Greater Than Hurricane Katrina'

San Francisco Magazine Joe Eskenazi California Department of Water Resources California’s failure to even barely maintain its crumbling infrastructure is a disaster movie in slo-mo. If you were to drive from San Francisco to Ronald Stork’s Sacramento office right now, you’d see tree tops and utility poles poking out of the flood plains; the Cosumnes River has breached its levees following the deluge. At times, the still water, broken occasionally by floating detritus and partially submerge...