SF News Winter Storms Rekindle Fears That Oroville Dam Could Burst Over, With Catastrophic Consequences It’s hard to get one’s head around the magnitude of calamity if the tallest dam in the U.S. were to overtop. But that almost happened to the Oroville Dam in 2017, and this year’s epic storms have engineers on edge that the dam could indeed break.
SF News Lake Oroville Spillway In Active Use as Lake Shasta Nears Capacity as Well The last time Lake Oroville neared capacity was four years ago, and very quickly it plunged into drought territory and has seen low water levels until this winter. And now that billion-dollar, renovated spillway is back in use as the reservoir is back at 99% of its capacity.
SF News Lake Oroville Is Now 61 Feet From Capacity; Rain, Snow Runoff Likely to Trigger Need For Spillway It's been a total reversal of fortune this year for Lake Oroville and the recreational houseboaters who like to hang out on the reservoir, with the water level now over 100 percent of its historical average. But Lake Oroville is returning to a point of too much of a good thing.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oroville Dam Spillway Gushes With Water Once More The spillway was put to use for the first time since 2017, more Bay Area parents appeared in court in the college fraud case, and Walnut Creek Police arrested an allegedly scary creep.
SF News Oroville Dam Spillway Reconstruction Could Begin In 10 Days; Gov. Brown Waives Some Permitting Requirements Work to redesign and replace the heavily damaged main spillway at Oroville Dam is underway, with officials saying that design work is about 60 percent complete on this rush job, which could begin
SF News Safety Experts: 'Very Significant Risk' Possible If Oroville Dam Spillway Unfixed By Next Year The Oroville dam spillway that crumbled under intense pressure from use this rainy season, precipitating area evacuations that were only fully lifted this week, has work crews rushing to reconstruct the structure. If
