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“My sense is there’s a lot of water over the dam still to come before anybody can determine anybody’s individual position in the primaries of ’24 — except to say that if Donald Trump runs, he will certainly be a factor.”

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“It’s water over the dam, under the bridge, however you want to refer to it. Let’s get over it and get on with our lives.”

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The feared uncontrolled releases of water over the dam did not occur, and authorities allowed residents to return home within days.

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The team of hydraulic engineers sends water over the dam model to test design elements of a $300 million spillway rebuild set for completion by November.

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For days, DWR officials assured that the incoming storms were expected to be weaker than the ones that bloated the lake a week ago, pushing  torrents of debris-laden water over the dam’s main and emergency spillways, damaging both so badly that numerous communities downstream were forced to evacuate.

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