OROVILLE, Calif. - The Department of Water Resources (DWR) plans to use Oroville Dam's main spillway for flood control ...
The Department of Water Resources began releasing water out of the Oroville Dam’s main spillway 6 a.m. Monday after ...
Lake Oroville is the largest storage facility in the State Water Project, serving flood protection and supporting ...
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Lake Oroville rises 23 feet in 3 days

Lake Oroville surpassed 2 million acre feet of water around 10 a.m. Tuesday, according to DWR's data exchange center, rising ...
The California Department of Water Resources on Wednesday began releasing water from Oroville Dam’s main spillway. The release into the Feather River ensures storage space remains in Lake Oroville for ...
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) - The instability of the emergency spillway at the Oroville Dam is now drawing concerns about our flood system as a whole: Is it operating as designed? And with all this water in ...
OROVILLE, Calif. (CBS News) – Environmental activists and local government officials warned more than a decade ago about the risk of catastrophic flooding below a major Northern California dam — the ...
OROVILLE — To help manage flood risk by levees in Oroville, the Oroville City Council on Tuesday will consider entering an agreement with the Sutter Buttes Flood Control Agency for risk reduction ...
The critical document that determines how much space should be left in Lake Oroville for flood control during the rainy season hasn’t been updated since 1970, and it uses climatological data and ...
Federal regulators are raising new concerns about the troubled Oroville Dam, telling California officials their recently rebuilt flood-control spillways likely couldn’t handle a mega-flood. Although ...
At 4:42 p.m. on Feb. 12, 2017, one year ago today, the California Department of Water Resources issued a tweet: “EMERGENCY EVACUATION: Auxiliary spillway at Oroville Dam predicted to fail within the ...
CLICK HERE if you are having a problem viewing the photos on a mobile device OROVILLE — The state Department of Water Resources does not expect to need to operate the Oroville Dam spillway anytime ...