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The winter months are a crucial time of year for California's water supply. It is the state's wet season, the time to stockpile water for the drier months that run from the spring into the fall.
Photos from the California Department of Water Resources show how water levels rose at Lake Oroville and Lake Folsom reservoirs after winter storms.
Lake Oroville plays an important role in flood management, water quality, and the health of fisheries affecting areas downstream like the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. During the warm season, the primary source of streamflow is melting snow, occurring April 1 – July 31, and Lake Oroville receives about 40 percent of the annual total inflow.
At 12:50 p.m., the Sheriff’s Office announced mandatory evacuation orders were issued for zones 534, 535, 953 and 954 in Butte County. A temporary evacuation shelter has been opened at the ...
Lake Oroville has a maximum operating storage of 3,537,580 acre-feet (4.36354 × 10 9 m 3), which, for purposes of scale, is equal to over 1.153 trillion gallons of water. The lake has a water surface area of 15,810 acres (64.0 km 2), a maximum water surface elevation of 901 feet (275 m), and 167 miles of shoreline.
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.
Lake Oroville in Northern California, the state's second-largest reservoir, is at 100% of capacity after a historic rainy season and as a deep snowpack begins to melt.
The reservoir has hit a record low level, dropping to just 641.2 feet above sea level; the former record low of the lake was 645.11 feet, recorded on Sept. 7, 1977.