The California Department of Water Resources began releasing 13,500 cubic feet per second from the spillway Thursday.
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Lake Oroville rising
On Wednesday, the lake’s water level was reported at 862.29 feet elevation, putting it on par with both 2023 and 2024 when ...
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 ...