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In February 2017, heavy rainfall damaged Oroville Dam's main and emergency spillways, prompting the evacuation of more than 180,000 people living downstream along the Feather River and the relocation of a fish hatchery.
Hundreds of people are offering assistance to the thousands of Oroville, California residents that had to be evacuated. Californians open homes to Oroville evacuees fleeing floods Skip to main content
Oroville Dam is an earthfill embankment dam on the Feather River east of the city of Oroville, California, ... Oroville Dam spillway damage, February 27, 2017.
High water flows in the Feather River caused considerable damage, collapsing the river banks and destroying large areas of farmland. The Feather River Fish Hatchery was flooded with turbid water, and several million juvenile salmon had to be evacuated from the facility. The estimated cost to repair Oroville Dam is $400 million. [32]
Cars were speeding through town," Oroville resident Genoa Widener recalled. People were running in the streets. One year later, Oroville dam crisis still weighs on residents' minds
Reservoir levels at Oroville stand at about 840 feet — 60 feet shy of the maximum. As California gets drenched, officials opening Oroville Dam spillway for first time in 4 years Skip to main content
Indeed, in winter 2016–2017 this dipole was apparently reversed. [48] [49] February 2017 – The Oroville Dam crisis occurred after heavy rainfall damaged Oroville Dam's main and emergency spillways, prompting the evacuation of more than 180,000 people living downstream along the Feather River and the relocation
From the sediment-filled Matilija Dam to the seismically unsafe Potter Valley Project complex on the North Coast, momentum around removing dams that do more harm than good is growing.