Press Play with Madeleine Brand
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.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readOroville isn’t the only dam with faulty spillways. California has about 1400 dams, and many of them have structural problems.
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Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Anna Scott
Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter
Jolie Myers
Managing Producer, 'Press Play'
Jeffrey Mount
senior fellow at Public Policy Institute of California Water Policy Center; professor emeritus, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, UC Davis
The full episode
2 of 5Oroville dam and fixing infrastructure in California- 0:00Mass evacuations in the shadow of America's tallest dam
- 8:12Rethinking how dams are designed and built in CaliforniaYou’re reading this
- 17:35Recent immigration crackdowns sow fear under Trump
- 26:59Change through kindness: Why a black musician befriends the KKK
- 41:04Are the Grammys still relevant?