Dam engineers and safety experts say the drama that unfolded in February at California's Oroville dam, when trouble with the main and emergency spillways led to the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents, could be a good thing for dam safety in the U.S. "The Oroville event represents an opportunity," says Martin McCann Jr., director of the National Performance of Dams Project and a civil engineering professor at Stanford University. "The dam didn't fail. The spillway didn't fail. No one got killed. So, let's count our blessings and seize the opportunity.
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