Farmers Plead ‘Stop Our Fields Flooding’ as Trump Opens Dams

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/farmers-plead-stop-our-fields-flooding-as-trump-opens-dams-in-california/

Multiple water management experts told Politico that moves like the one initially planned to hit Tulare County could have serious consequences.

“Something really bad could happen because of their nonsensical approach,” said a former official at Bureau of Reclamation, the primary agency responsible for delivering water in the western U.S. “Floods are real. This isn’t playing around with a software company.”

Hernandez was in agreement.

“Channel capacity is very dangerous,” he said. “People don’t understand that [with] channel capacity, you’re going to have flood damage down below.”