Claim: "The Oroville dam failure was entirely avoidable: California passed a $7.5 Billion water bond in 2014 but Jerry Brown didn't spend $1 on new water storage or improvements to existing infrastructure like Oroville."
Fact-check: Lawmaker misleads in claims about Oroville dam crisis 
Verdict: barely-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Chris Nichols
Date published: 2017-02-16T00:00:00