SF News Day Around the Bay: Oroville Dam Spillway Lets Loose Parts of the Bay Area are under an "extreme cold watch" for Friday morning; another Oakland athletics coach had his life threatened; and ICE agents shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis today.
SF News As Water Levels Rise, NorCal's Largest Dams Put Spillways Into Action The two largest reservoirs in California, Shasta Lake and Lake Oroville, have been nearing capacity in recent weeks, and so their giant spillways are back in use, releasing millions of gallons of water.
SF News Fast-Growing Thompson Fire Threatens Oroville, Prompts 28,000 Evacuations A wildfire that began Tuesday morning has grown to over 3,000 acres and is threatening the town of Oroville as it burns up to the edges of California's second-largest reservoir.
SF News Winter Storms Rekindle Fears That Oroville Dam Could Burst Over, With Catastrophic Consequences It’s hard to get one’s head around the magnitude of calamity if the tallest dam in the U.S. were to overtop. But that almost happened to the Oroville Dam in 2017, and this year’s epic storms have engineers on edge that the dam could indeed break.
SF News Lake Oroville Spillway In Active Use as Lake Shasta Nears Capacity as Well The last time Lake Oroville neared capacity was four years ago, and very quickly it plunged into drought territory and has seen low water levels until this winter. And now that billion-dollar, renovated spillway is back in use as the reservoir is back at 99% of its capacity.
SF News Lake Oroville Is Now 61 Feet From Capacity; Rain, Snow Runoff Likely to Trigger Need For Spillway It's been a total reversal of fortune this year for Lake Oroville and the recreational houseboaters who like to hang out on the reservoir, with the water level now over 100 percent of its historical average. But Lake Oroville is returning to a point of too much of a good thing.
SF News Lake Oroville Is On Its Way to Filling Up Again This Spring, After Several Dry Years As a visual representation of where we stand in terms of drought and water resources, you can't do much better than Lake Oroville, the man-made reservoir in Butte County that is the second largest in the state.
SF News Deja Vu: Lake Oroville Is More Than Half Empty Again Lake Oroville has been the setting for dramatic images of both the last drought, and the rainy El Nino aftermath of the drought that led to a near disaster at Oroville Dam in 2017. And, once again, with the reservoir at 42% of its capacity, some new photos are rolling in.
SF News FEMA Refuses $300M In Oroville Dam Replacement Costs The Oroville Dam spillway reconstruction project has just been completed as Lake Oroville approaches capacity again for the first time since that crisis in 2017.
SF News Green Spots On Oroville Dam May Indicate Dangerous Seepage, Says Expert The drama surrounding the Oroville Dam and its currently under-construction spillway is likely to continue well past this year. And a new, scathing report from a retired Berkeley engineering professor suggests that
SF News Video: Gold Nuggets Being Found In Rivers After Oroville Dam Crisis One exciting side effect of the Oroville Dam spillway crisis this winter has been a new albeit modest gold rush along the rivers that the spillway fed into, like the Feather River and
SF News Video: Drone Footage Shows Massive Oroville Spillway Repair Project Underway The work is proceeding apace at the Oroville Dam, where the winter of 2017 tested a 50-year-old piece of water infrastructure, and it failed the test. As we learned in April,
SF News Oroville Dam Spillway Reconstruction Could Begin In 10 Days; Gov. Brown Waives Some Permitting Requirements Work to redesign and replace the heavily damaged main spillway at Oroville Dam is underway, with officials saying that design work is about 60 percent complete on this rush job, which could begin
SF News Safety Experts: 'Very Significant Risk' Possible If Oroville Dam Spillway Unfixed By Next Year The Oroville dam spillway that crumbled under intense pressure from use this rainy season, precipitating area evacuations that were only fully lifted this week, has work crews rushing to reconstruct the structure. If
SF News Oroville Dam Will Begin Releasing Water Down Its Heavily Damaged Spillway Again Next Week Brace yourselves for more potential drama as California's Department of Water Resources once again tests Mother Nature's kindness and begins releasing more massive amounts of water down the Oroville
SF News Oroville Dam Shutoff Causes Riverbanks To Collapse Downstream Riverbanks collapse after #OrovilleDam spillway shut off. https://t.co/lIkgrn9uZP pic.twitter.com/MIt7Pthckk — SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) March 4, 2017 An extreme side effect of the Department of Water Resources' decision to
SF News Video: New Drone Footage Shows Massive Canyon Created By Oroville Dam Spillway Erosion It's been two weeks since a potentially catastrophic scenario appeared to be unfolding at Lake Oroville, north of Sacramento, which forced the evacuations of some 200,000 people ahead of what
SF News Sikh Temples Give Shelter To Hundreds Of Oroville Dam Area Evacuees When 188,000 people, their lives and property endangered by the possible collapse or otherwise dangerous erosion of an Oroville Dam spillway, were ordered to evacuate their homes on Sunday, the West Sacramento
SF News Pet Kangaroos Left Behind During Oroville Dam Crisis Are Rescued, Adorable When 188,000 residents in the vicinity of the Oroville Dam were ordered to leave their property on Sunday fearing spillway collapse and flooding, some were forced to abandon animals and pets. "
SF News Mandatory Evacuation Order Around Lake Oroville Lifted An 188,000-person evacuation order of two days ago in the vicinity of the Lake Oroville dam, where homes and the safety of their occupants in the low-lying parts of Oroville
SF News Lake Oroville Situation Calms Down Temporarily As Officials Assess Damage On Spillways Monday morning is being spent assessing the situation and beginning emergency repairs to the auxiliary spillway at Lake Oroville Dam, which Sunday evening appeared in danger of failure in a situation that could
