A decent drone video of the damaged spillway at lake Oroville. At one point, they highlight the only place where what they identify as rebar is visible in the concrete (and in full screen a few other spots are visible), but it is clear that most of the spillway had almost no rebar at all, and certainly wasn't made to code or specifications. If it had been built even close to specifications, rebar should be protruding at least every 18 inches in both directions and clearly visible at every single break of concrete, as well as holding the chunks together and tangled in a huge pile at the bottom of the runoff, but we can see almost no rebar anywhere besides the one spot they highlight, and where it can be seen it seems to have only been laid in one direction.

Someone should really go to jail for this dangerous, certain to fail construction, but the contractors are probably no longer living, so who?

This should make us all wonder about all the infrastructure in the USA. This was built in an earthquake zone and was still criminally underbuilt. It's likely this is the norm, not an isolated event, and most of our concrete structures built 50+ years ago either don't have enough, or any rebar, making them at risk for catastrophic failure. We need to have all our dams inspected ASAP before another hyper expensive failure happens and kills a few thousand people.