• Heavy rainfall resulted in record inflows from the Feather River, and the spillway was opened in January to relieve pressure on Oroville Dam.
  • At the Oroville Dam, the core is impenetrable to water. The core is covered with gravel and sand called rockfill materials.
  • The state, and particularly the thousands of people living below Oroville Dam, are experiencing that reality right now.
  • Oroville Dam was constructed in 1968 and stands as the tallest earthen dam in the United States, at a height of 770 feet.
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  • Oroville Dam gained notoriety in Febuary, 2017 when the main spillway was badly damaged and the reservoir rose to the overflow spillway in February 12th.
  • Fixing the Oroville Dam’s structural damage will not fix the Oroville Dam’s, business-model’s weaknesses within the context of a changed and changing climate.
  • Five years after the Oroville Dam Spillway Crisis, DWR has completed the structural rebuild of...
  • The Oroville Dam, constructed in 1968, is an earthen embankment dam situated east of the city of Oroville in the US State of California.
  • To begin with, it established a number of firsts: Image result for Oroville Dam. At 770 feet it was the highest earth fill dam in the world.