• Oroville Dam is an earthfill embankment dam on the Feather River east of the city of Oroville, California, in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of the Sacramento Valley.
  • At the Oroville Dam, the core is impenetrable to water. The core is covered with gravel and sand called rockfill materials.
  • The Oroville Dam was built it the 1960s — it remains the tallest dam in the United States, and Lake Oroville is a rather deep lake — second to Lake Tahoe but a...
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  • 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.
  • Oroville Dam was constructed in 1968 and stands as the tallest earthen dam in the United States, at a height of 770 feet.
  • 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.
  • Five years after the Oroville Dam Spillway Crisis, DWR has completed the structural rebuild of...
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  • The Oroville Dam is a feat of engineering. Its massive scale remains unmatched by other dams in the United States over half a century after its completion.