At one point, grass and brush were on fire on the face of the 770-foot-tall Oroville Dam, a mammoth earthen structure built in the 1960s ... rushing down its massive spillway Tuesday and Wednesday ...

"Visitors to Oroville Dam may also notice minor amounts of water flowing from drains built into the emergency spillway, which is normal and expected with the emergency spillway design," the DWR said.

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 ...

OROVILLE — Despite increased maintenance of Oroville Dam since the spillway fell apart in February ... The Oroville Dam was built in 1968, more than 50 years ago, and the gate mechanism was ...

The state agency that manages Oroville ... the Oroville spillway incident in 2017. Paul Kitagaki Jr. [email protected] Once the dam was finished, none of those amenities were built, and the ...

and the activation of the emergency spillway. The question now was what to do? The Oroville Dam on the Feather River was built in the 1960’s and is located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in ...