Robert Bea is featured in California Magazine on the potential infrastructure failure of the Oroville Dam.
According to Bea, CEE professor emeritus and co-founder of UC Berkeley’s Center for Catastrophic Risk Management, the state may be teetering on the cusp of utter disaster, one major storm away from an infrastructure failure that could send a wall of water down the Sacramento Valley.
Bea is one of the world’s top authorities on many of the nation’s worst disasters over the past couple of decades, from the destruction of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia to Hurricane Katrina to the Deepwater Horizon explosion.
See Damned if we do: What could happen if Oroville Dam Fails (California Magazine, 2/14/17)