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The Oroville dam before the crisis, with main spillway center and overflow spillway immediately to the left, above vegetation. For flood control purposes, some space in Oroville Reservoir has to be kept dry to capture floodwaters, a practice that has caused controversy at other dams of California over the amounts of water wasted. [6]
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
The California Department of Water Resources on Wednesday began releasing water from Oroville Dam’s main spillway. ... The Lake Oroville reservoir is the largest storage facility in the State ...
The city of Oroville declared a state of emergency as state and federal resources pour in to fight the place. Four homes destroyed, 13k remain evacuated as Thompson Fire burns 3,000 acres in Butte ...
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.
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 of a fish hatchery.
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
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]