Lake Oroville

And I was like, dude, I got one.

And he's from Oroville, right? So I called and I was like, Aaron, I'm calling you from the bottom of Lake Oroville.

You know what you did.

You know what you did.

Like, it's someone that clearly is using a voice changer.

Yeah.

Calling from the bottom of Lake Oroville.

Yeah.

There's a lot of questions that come and people discuss dividing California.

What does that mean to our water infrastructure? What does that mean to our water rights? What happens to Lake Oroville? How about energy transmission? Uh, you know, so at this point it is, we have to save this state and, uh, you know, we can have that discussion if we're not successful in the near future of turning California around.

Um, you know, what, what happens next for California, but right now it is simply to, um, uh, preserve the North state in our communities, but also to have, uh, California, all of Californians working together, uh, to make our communities safe and successful.

Okay.

There's a part of the Oroville Dam that helps endangered species of salmon survive, and the State Department of Water Resources says it just got a major upgrade.

The agency rehabilitated a valve system that gives it the ability to move cold water from Lake Oroville to the Feather River.

Jason Brabec, the project's manager, says this technology is critical for regulating water temperatures needed to sustain Chinook salmon and steelhead trout.

So it's infrastructure the state wants to keep in working order.

You know, I wish that could be more widespread out here because, uh, most of California rice is, depending on where it's farmed, we rely mainly on surface water irrigation.

We have, um, two main systems, uh, Shasta, uh, Dam up nor- up north of, like, Redding area, and then we also have Oroville.

Um, so these reservoirs are kind of the bread and butter for water conveyance and, and, you know, all the different water districts that are within those, uh, reservoir, uh, maps or land- landscapes.

So, uh, most of the infrastructure I would say is, is good, but it's those ones that, you know, are really trying to fine-tune what they're doing and how much water they're, uh, you know, needing to grow rice, and that's kind of what I've felt has been some of the coolest stuff.

California can spend years in severe drought and suddenly atmospheric rivers arrive and we're worried about flooding.

Reservoirs like Shasta and Oroville can rise dramatically.

One part of the country has too much water.

Another part doesn't have enough.