Oroville – Faulty design, construction and repairs of the main Oroville Dam spillway allowed ... The result was a spillway as thin as 7 inches in places, much of it built on rock that was ...

For the first time since Oroville Dam was completed in 1968, water from its storm-swollen reservoir overtopped the emergency spillway Saturday ... The dam was built by Brown’s father, Gov.

The independent team of experts investigating the dramatic failure of the spillways last February at Oroville ... spillway at the 770-foot tall dam north of Sacramento, America’s tallest dam ...

Last week, the Oroville Dam Spillway ... As water flowed over the dam’s emergency spillway, it violently eroded the base of the hill on which it was built, leading authorities to evacuate ...

Construction crews have been working to rebuild the spillway at the Oroville Dam in Northern California ... time in the nearly 50 years since it was built, water was diverted into the emergency ...

Aerial photo released by the California Department of Water Resources shows the damaged spillway with eroded hillside in Oroville ... s the tallest dam in the United States. Built between 1961 ...

In another sign that the drought is ending across much of California, state water officials planned to open the floodgates at Oroville Dam on Friday ... that the spillway, built in 1967, had ...

The flood-control spillway at Oroville Dam is in use Tuesday for the first ... The original spillway, built in the 1960s, broke apart in 2017 during heavy rains. Thousands of people were ordered ...