A drone panoramic view of Oroville Dam and main spillway at Lake Oroville in Butte County, Calif. Photo taken March 11, 2025.

Recent storms brought the water level of Lake Oroville up to 862.29 feet elevation ... Water Resources began releasing 13,500 cfs from the spillway Thursday which created a big splash and a ...

Officials say that some of the water that is released from Lake Oroville is distributed locally for agricultural benefit, ...

Lake water flows over the emergency spillway, bottom left, at Lake Oroville for the first time in the Oroville Dam's nearly 50-year history, Feb. 11, 2017. Credit: Randy Pench/The Sacramento Bee ...

More than 100,000 people have been evacuated in California after fears a dam spillway is in danger of collapsing. The Oroville dam is 770 feet high and it is the tallest one in the US.

The California Department of Water Resources is increasing the outflows from the lake from 10,000 cubic feet per second to 15 ...

When I see pictures and TV coverage of the Oroville Dam and its spillway, I question the absence of re-bar or steel mesh sticking out of the broken slabs of concrete.

The DWR says that outflows being released down the Oroville Dam spillway from Lake Oroville will be increased from 10,000 cfs ...

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Meanwhile, the current spillway capacity and infrastructure at Oroville Dam, operated by the Department of Water Resources, meet the needs outlined in the recent report, according to the release.