• The Oroville Dam is the United States’ tallest earth-fill dam, and provides many citizens in the Sacramento Area with electricity and drinking water.
  • Heavy rainfall resulted in record inflows from the Feather River, and the spillway was opened in January to relieve pressure on Oroville Dam.
  • Normal and continuous operations of the Oroville Dam is critical to California’s economy and the state should invest in the protection of this resource.
  • The Oroville Dam, which was completed in 1968 and “is the tallest dam in the U.S.”[1], has NEVER had an event even close to this spillway emergency.
  • Oroville Dam was constructed in 1968 and stands as the tallest earthen dam in the United States, at a height of 770 feet.
  • And at the top of this list comes the Oroville Dam. Being the tallest highest Earth-fill dam in the U.S., it’s an impressive structure that stands 770 feet high!
  • To make sense of the fast-developing situation at California’s Oroville Dam, Chris spoke today with Scott Cahill, an expert with 40 years of experience on large...
  • On Febru-ary 7, as the water continued to pour down, state engineers noticed con-crete erosion on the flood-control spillway at the Oroville Dam.
  • Expert: What You Need To Know About The Oroville Dam Crisis. Peak Prosperity. ... "The Birth of Oroville Dam" - produced and directed by Mark S Lambert.
  • At the Oroville Dam, the core is impenetrable to water. The core is covered with gravel and sand called rockfill materials.