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California towns flee as Oroville Dam threatens to release wall of water
California Gov. Jerry Brown issued a state emergency order ... DO NOT TRAVEL NORTH TOWARD OROVILLE!!!!!” The Sacramento Fire Department echoed the urgency and warned residents that the spillway failure could have effects, including flash flooding ...
Oroville Dam: California officials ignored warnings a decade ago
Ron Stork, policy director with Friends of the River, a Sacramento environmental group ... First, powerful storms dumped rain and snow across California. The high waters caused Lake Oroville's level to rise to the top, and the water couldn't be drained ...
The Latest: Groups warned of California dam spillway in 2005
Bill Croyle, acting head of California's Department of Water Resources ... says she and her husband were having dinner Sunday at her daughter's house in Sacramento when she got word from a city councilman friend that her area would probably be evacuated.
200,000 evacuated as the nation's tallest dam threatens to flood Oroville, California
Department engineer and spokesman Kevin Dossey told the Sacramento Bee the emergency spillway was rated to handle 250,000 cubic feet per second, but it began to show weakness Sunday after flows peaked at 12,600 cubic feet per second. The California ...
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Sacramento Valley ARES Section Emergency Coordinator Greg ... and sheltering of upward of 200,000 people living below the damaged Oroville Dam in rural California. The dam, on the Feather River east of Oroville, is the tallest dam in the US.
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