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  • Oroville Dam Spillway Emergency: Number of People Ordered to Evacuate Rises to Nearly 200,000 (CA)

    02/13/2017 5:52:03 AM PST · by bgill · 48 replies
    weather.com ^ | Feb. 12, 2017 | AP
    Nearly 200,000 people remained under evacuation orders Monday as California authorities try to fix erosion of the emergency spillway at the nation's tallest dam that could unleash uncontrolled flood waters if it fails. About 150 miles northeast of San Francisco, Lake Oroville - one of California's largest man-made lakes - had water levels so high that an emergency spillway was used Saturday for the first time in almost 50 years. The evacuation was ordered Sunday afternoon after engineers spotted a hole on the concrete lip of the secondary spillway for the 770-foot-tall Oroville Dam and told authorities that it could...
  • Emergency: California’s Oroville Dam Spillway Near Failure, Evacuations Ordered

    02/12/2017 4:26:47 PM PST · by janetjanet998 · 4,537 replies
    Breitbart ^ | Feb 12, 2017 | Joel B. Pollak1
    <p>OROVILLE, Calif. - An immediate evacuation from the low levels of Oroville and areas downstream is ordered.</p> <p>A hazardous situation has developed with the Oroville Dam auxiliary spillway. Officials say that operation of the auxiliary spillway has lead to severe erosion that could lead to a failure of the structure.</p>