A An expert engineer with 20 plus years of experience working on water dams told a Sacramento radio station last week that the Oroville dam could be in trouble again. He stated that the condition that led to the failure of the main spillway in 2017 is happening again. The state has spent more than a billion dollars rebuilding the main and emergency spillways at Oroville dam. Now, expert Scott Cahill told News Radio KFBK, water can be seen seeping from the foot of the dam and dozens of points along the new spillway. Cahill said: “That concrete spillway slab is now moving water, which is evolving up through the slab today very similar to what it did before the failure (in 2017).” He’s even more concerned with cracks in the gates along the crest of the dam, something he says is already in what he calls failure mode. Cahill said he has sent his concerns to the California Department of Water Resources, but he claims those officials have not replied. Department of Water Resources say they are confident the repair and reconstructed spillway will sustain the safety of the pressures the dam will be required to handle with the water distribution of the current season. DWS says they are aware of some seepage through the gates and spillway this season, and the gates are not designed to be water tight.