Oroville Dam: Cost to repair spillways nearly doubles in price to $500M

Re:Oroville Dam: Cost to repair spillways nearly doubles in ... by pbhjpbhj on Sunday October 22, 2017 @09:55AM (#15526838)

Isn't completion something that is at least in part in the bidders control. Did they employ all available personnel and work 24 hours?

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Re:Oroville Dam: Cost to repair spillways nearly doubles in ... by SOLAR_FIELDS on Sunday October 22, 2017 @11:24AM (#15527190)

Sort of, when they could. In this case there were penalties for going longer on the project. Main problems ended up being weather (heavy rains) and lack of knowledge of the soil - many changes were made to the project because the contractor (C2HM) did not do a proper soil survey where they were going to be digging.

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