Its surface-level elevation is 898.73 feet, just shy of its full elevation base level of 900 feet.  When it reaches capacity, ...

Communities immediately downstream of California's Lake Oroville dam would not receive adequate warning or time for evacuations if the 770-foot-tall dam itself — rather than its spillways ...

Jeffrey Mount, a leading expert on California water policy, remembers the last time a crisis at the Oroville Dam seemed likely to prompt reform. It was 1997 and the lake risked overflowing ...

Lake Oroville was down to a level of 878 feet ... “That allows us to continue to prepare for future wet weather and runoff.” The Oroville Dam, the tallest dam in the United States, provides ...

sits in floodwaters as the Feather River continues to swell from the water being let out of Lake Oroville ahead of this weekend’s storm. Helicopters ferry sand and rocks to the Oroville Dam’s ...

California officials released water from the main spillway at Oroville Dam Friday in the wake of recent storms and with snowmelt expected to swell lake levels later this year. It's the second ...

The independent team of experts investigating the dramatic failure of the spillways last February at Oroville Dam that led to the evacuation of 188,000 people has concluded that California water ...

In a fresh test of Oroville Dam’s battered infrastructure ... Bill Croyle said it was important to push water out of Lake Oroville as water levels continue to rise. “We’re going to be ...

California water officials have stopped the flow of water down Oroville Dam's main concrete spillway, in part so they can assess damage to it and areas around it that have eroded. Use of the ...

OROVILLE, Butte County — Nearly 200,000 people downriver from Lake Oroville were ordered to evacuate Sunday night after an emergency spillway next to the reservoir’s dam appeared in danger of ...

Oroville – A plan has been prepared for flood control operations this rainy season at Oroville Dam, which call for keeping the lake lower and aggressively releasing water if the water level ...

Languages: English. Officials have stopped water releases at the Lake Oroville dam as of Wednesday morning following nearly a week of outflow that equated to billions of gallons of water leaving ...