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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kiewit, and Petersen, came to Oroville fresh from another big Northern California dam project -- the new auxiliary spillway at Folsom Dam, a structure that took more than a decade to design and build.

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 ...

With the threat of the Mississippi River getting too high for the New Orleans area levees, crews today are practicing opening the Bonnet Spillway structure. "Right now the seven day forecast does ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The rising Mississippi River has reached the floodgates at the Bonnet Carre Spillway, prompting the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to begin a test of the structure on Monday ...