The Oroville Dam Spillway Failure

Oroville Dam on 2/11/2017. The main spillway (center) is heavily damaged, so water is being let through the emergency spillway (top). There are concerns that the emergency spillway may erodeCredit: William Croyle, California Department of Water Resources The large gully to the right of the main spillway was caused by water flowing through its damaged concrete surface.

As I’ve mentioned in some of my previous posts, this has been an exceptionally stormy winter for much of California. While these storms have been crucial in eliminating California’s drought, they have also caused a variety of weather-related hazards in the Golden State. And no hazard has been bigger than the crisis on Northern California’s […]

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