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How a team of engineers and construction crews restored the spillway before the next flood season.
My wife and I got a birds eye view of the spillway today as the lighting was perfect and they had shut off the out flow.. Check this out..
A process called 'cavitation,' where tiny vapor bubbles in fast-moving water can smash concrete is a key suspect. Why didn't California officials guard against it?
Oroville Dam: Water flowing through powerhouse again
When state water officials scaled back their mass dumping of water from the damaged...
The cause of one of the year's most memorable weather disasters is getting the boom this month — the emergency spillway on the Lake Oroville Dam in Californi...
5 Things That Could Happen If California's Oroville Dam Breaks - Roseville, CA - Here's what you should know about the dam that threatens thousands of homes.
Oroville Dam: Crews take on debris removal, fish rescue
State Department of Water Resources says use of emergency spillway will cause severe erosion, but not flooding
Residents return, but Oroville Dam dangers remain as new storm approaches
Oroville >> Something was wrong with the Oroville Dam spillway weeks before the Department of Water Resources noticed a hole in the concrete. Two photos taken by photographers from this newspaper show discoloration and possible damage to the concrete of the spillway at the spot where a gaping hole opened Feb. 7. Those pictures were […]
More than a decade ago, federal and state officials rejected concerns that the spillway at Oroville Dam could erode during heavy winter rains and cause a catastrophe.
Any dam engineer would be terrified of this nightmare scenario — the possible collapse of a retaining wall in California’s second largest reservoir.
The rain has started to return in Northern California and will continue over the next few days, but officials aren't as concerned about the upcoming weather so much as the damage already done to the Oroville Dam's already compromised main spillway.The risk of flooding has dropped substantially, but Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea warned residents Wednesday that they remain in "an emergency situation."Engineers are racing to lower the water level at Lake Oroville.These graphics explain what is happening at the Oroville Dam. Could the crisis have been prevented?Here is Butte County's emergency information website.PHOTOS: Crisis at the Oroville DamVIDEOS: The Lake Oroville emergency explained | An evacuee waits to return home
Long before a fractured spillway plunged Oroville Dam into the gravest crisis in its 48-year history, officials at a handful of government agencies devised a plan they believed would make the dam safer: Store less water there. Should the state have listened?
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California has seen droughts before, but this one just isn’t letting up. As Ivan Semeniuk reports, the state’s governor has ordered the first mandatory water restrictions, but will it be enough?
California’s drought-stricken reservoirs have seen a remarkable recovery after a barrage of storms lashed the state last month. Officials say it’s a much-needed improvement after hovering at critically low levels for the past several years.
It’s no secret that a vast amount of American infrastructure is in great need of upgrades, repairs or replacements. The repairs that are desperately needed will come, and they will come in on…
