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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.
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.
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, the second-largest ... the 1950–1999 average and the temperature was 0.91 °C above average. ... that storing water in Lake Mead rather than in Lake ...
Satellite photos from NASA Earth Observatory show water levels at Lake Shasta and Lake Oroville increasing dramatically after early-winter storms. ... Fox Weather. Multiday lake-effect snow event ...
Drone footage shot by storm chaser Brandon Clement showed the improvement in water level and snowpack in places such as Folson Lake, Lake Oroville and Donner Pass, since last summer.
The area south of Oroville Lake and several miles downhill from areas that had been de ... Oroville Dam’s main spillway has been reopened to maintain water releases and temperature control in ...
The Hyatt Powerplant is capable of pumping water back into Lake Oroville when surplus power is available. The pump-generators at Hyatt can lift up to 5,610 cubic feet per second (159 m 3 /s) into Lake Oroville (with a net consumption of 519 MW), while the six turbines combined use a flow of 16,950 cu ft/s (480 m 3 /s) at maximum generation.