Two weeks after Butte County asked for the federal government’s intervention on the Lake Oroville problem, the state got around to filing a response. The five pages in the state’s response can be summarized in three words: Go pound sand. It’s exactly the type of response we’d expect from the state Department of Water Resources. As we’ve documented many times over many years on this page, the state doesn’t like to answer to anybody when it comes to operation of the Lake Oroville hydroelectric project.