• Heavy rainfall resulted in record inflows from the Feather River, and the spillway was opened in January to relieve pressure on Oroville Dam.
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    In February 2017, Oroville Dam‘s main and emergency spillways were damaged, prompting the evacuation of more than 180,000 people living downstream...
  • At the Oroville Dam, the core is impenetrable to water. The core is covered with gravel and sand called rockfill materials.
  • The Oroville Dam is the United States’ tallest earth-fill dam, and provides many citizens in the Sacramento Area with electricity and drinking water.
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  • And that’s the way it is with Oroville Dam today. With a dam and a river that is larger than the Tuolumne. ... I wish the operators of Oroville Dam all the best.
  • 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.
  • 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!
  • The near catastrophic failure of the Oroville Dam is a perfect example of what I am talking about. ... #4 The average age of America’s dams is now 52 years .
  • Five years after the Oroville Dam Spillway Crisis, DWR has completed the structural rebuild of...