Gavin Newsom: “The Oroville spillway calamity [occurred] in 2017, 2018.”

“Fast forward seems like a few months later, all of a sudden, this massive snowpack and then those atmospheric rivers. Early in January, February and warm weather that precipitated in that The Oroville spillway calamity [occurred] in 2017, 2018. It just seemed to me a lot of stress, a lot of anger. Twin tunnels, litigation, binaries, voluntary agreements were part of the conversation, but no one wanted to voluntarily agree.” (05:38–05:50)

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