The Department of Water Resources is preparing to begin releasing water down the main spillway at Lake Oroville today as rising water levels continue to climb.
Located just northeast of Oroville city limits, water from the dam’s main spillway flows into the Feather River. The dam was the center of a crisis in 2017 when torrential rainfall damaged the ...
It also incorporates operation of the Oroville Dam atop the Feather River, which converges with the Yuba River downstream near Yuba City and Marysville. “This is kind of a generational ...