The emergency spillway appears more like a muddy mess of small creeks that spill menacingly from the reservoir. The situation at Oroville Dam comes as much of California is suffering from climate ...

“California’s reservoirs play a critical ... Sutter and Yuba counties in February 2017 when concerns mounted that the dam’s ...

Workers try to repair the damaged Oroville Dam spillway in Feb. 2018. Credit: Brian Baer/ California Department of Water Resources via Getty Images From late 1861 through early 1862, a megaflood ...

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.

They're thrilled. In 1995, when a spillway gate failed in the Folsom Dam in California, engineers spent more than $100 million to repair it. Fortunately, there is just enough money in the budget ...

Water started flowing over an emergency spillway at the nation’s tallest dam, on Lake Oroville, for the first time Saturday after erosion damaged the Northern California dam’s main spillway.