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The Oroville Dam main spillway on August 5, 2018, during phase 2 repairs. The main spillway was successfully reconstructed by November 1, 2018. [46] According to its 2017–18 operations plan, the DWR maintained Lake Oroville at a lower than normal level to reduce the possibility that the spillway would have to be used the following winter. [44]
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At 770 feet (230 m), Oroville is the tallest dam in the United States; [25] by volume it is the largest dam in California. Authorized by an emergency flood control measure in 1957, [ 26 ] Oroville Dam was built between 1961 and 1967 with the reservoir filling for the first time in 1968. [ 27 ]
Oroville Dam is an earthfill embankment dam on the Feather River east of the city of Oroville, California, in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of the Sacramento Valley. At 770 feet (235 m) high, it is the tallest dam in the U.S. [ 8 ] and serves mainly for water supply, hydroelectricity generation, and flood control.
The Oroville dam footage shows the spillway flowing at 15,000 cubic feet per second.
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The Oroville–Thermalito Complex is a group of reservoirs, structures, and facilities located in and around the city of Oroville in Butte County, California.The complex serves not only as a regional water conveyance and storage system, but is the headwaters for, and therefore perhaps is the most vital part of, the California Department of Water Resources' State Water Project, as one of the ...
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