Different, Why?
Kevin King, the water and power operations manager at Solano Irrigation District, gave a statement, “The bureau has protocol and inspections, and with every inspection, everything has checked out so far. This construction and structure (Monticello) are much different than Oroville. We’re very narrow canyon here embedded in bedrock. The traditional spillway construction wouldn’t have fit here. It would have been very costly to drill into the side of the mountains here, so that’s how they came up with the design.”