OROVILLE (AP) - An independent team of dam experts says bad design and construction led to a disastrous spillway collapse at the nation's tallest dam. Dam safety experts investigating February's ...

Oroville Dam is the center of California’s massive water project, which sends water collected from the Sierra Nevada north of Sacramento south to cities and farms. It’s an epic engineering project ...

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Anyone who contemplated the wreckage of the Oroville Dam's main spillway back in February — either while water was pounding down the shattered concrete structure or when the flow was stopped later and ...

Oroville >> In the nearly 50 years since the Oroville Dam was completed, construction methods have changed. Chico State University construction management professor Chris Souder consulted on the ...

A LITTLE BIT LOWER TEMPERATURES INTO THE WEEKEND AS RAIN CHANCES GO UP AND TRACKING YOUR MORNING COMMUTE SINKS A BIG PROBLEMS RIGHT NOW FOR DRIVERS TRAVELING FROM LAPLACE EASTBOUND ON THE BONNET CARRE ...

I do not know what the state Department of Water Resources envisions as a design for a new spillway, but I have a suggestion. Instead of trying to fill in the enormous amount of dirt and rock that ...

Texas legislators have included part of the funding for a $150 million Lake Houston Spillway Dam Improvement Project in the biennium budget, Houston Mayor Pro Tem Dave Martin said last week. The state ...

Water flows over the emergency spillway at the tallest US dam Water flowed over the emergency spillway at California's Oroville Dam for first time in the reservoir's nearly 50-year history. February ...