Editorial: State’s Oroville Recovery Focus Should Be More Than Just Spillway

In the first opportunity for Oroville residents to ask direct questions of state water officials in the city where the spillway disaster unfolded, a crowd of about 300 people fired off many good questions. They got a lot of good answers, too. At the end of it all, one thing was obvious: The state has much more to do than fix a spillway. The state Department of Water Resources, which hosted the meeting Tuesday and manages the Oroville Dam and hydroelectric project, has been focused on repairs to the spillway. That makes sense.