The upper 730 feet also will be repaired next year. The lower half of the spillway structure crumbled amid powerful storms in February, disabling the reservoir’s most important tool for ...

Oroville Reservoir’s capacity is about 3.5 million acre-feet. The spillway structure was badly damaged in February among record rains and needs to be rebuilt. When it failed, the reservoir ...

The water ripped away much of the main spillway below the hole and tore into the hillside on both sides of the structure. Souder said the “baffles,” the enormous concrete blocks at the bottom ...

After decades of planning and construction, the Richard L. Schafer Dam Spillway at Lake Success is officially complete. Leaders say this large reservoir will dramatically improve flood control, ...

The dam road is closed at Gavins Point, shut down for maintenance of the dam road and dam gates. But what is all this work, ...

Current forecasts indicate the spillway could be open for two to four weeks. Opening of the structure relieves pressure on local levees, lowers river stages, and reduces the speed of the river ...

Operation of the auxiliary spillway has lead to severe erosion that could lead to a failure of the structure. “Failure of the auxiliary spillway structure will result in an uncontrolled release ...

In a historic move to reduce the risk of catastrophic flooding in Baton Rouge and New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers on Saturday began opening the Morganza Floodway to divert water from the ...

Operation of the spillway allowed flood waters from the Mississippi River to flow through the structure into farmlands along the Morganza Floodway. The flood was confined by guide levees to force ...

Specifically, the Court wrote since there was no physical change in the spillway structure, NEPA doesn’t require a supplemental environmental report. “For better or worse, Congress and the ...