Absolutely, it was entirely preventable and was known and warned about multiple times, the scumbag owner threw a hissy fit and said fine I won't fix it and I'll just drain the lake which would be ecologically devastating instead of just doing the fucking maintenance work on a dam. So the state forced him to keep the levels at the right level, but didn't force him to fix it either. Gotta keep those stonks high. The state is now forced to intervene (when they should have already) because without those two dams shoring up the local economy it would pretty much devastate the area even more than just not fixing them. This is the common theme to capitalism, neglect everything and pull maximum profit possible, and cross your fingers and hope there isn't a disaster. Then when the disaster hits, hope the total profit gained outweighs the damages. Capitalism in a nutshell. Or if you know the damages are going to be severe, just make the State government, like California set a 4 Million dollar max penalty so something like the Camp fire which killed nearly 100 people and caused billions in damage, and the Utility pleads Guilty for manslaughter doesn't owe shit.