Rethinking how dams are designed and built in California

Oroville isn’t the only dam with faulty spillways. California has about 1400 dams, and many of them have structural problems.

Credits

Guest:

  • Jeffrey Mount - senior fellow at Public Policy Institute of California Water Policy Center; professor emeritus, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, UC Davis

Host:

Madeleine Brand

Producers:

Sarah Sweeney, Anna Scott, Jolie Myers, Christian Bordal, Amy Ta, Michell Eloy