Intense effort to fortify Lake Oroville continues in rough weather
The water level at Lake Oroville continues to drop as state officials press on with the effort to drain the reservoir in light of a forecast calling for rain through Monday.
Repairs continued on the Oroville Dam spillway in late March 2018 as workers excavated and processed rocks into material for roller-compacted concrete.
An infestation of nutria, an invasive swamp rodent, was recently found in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. See how to identify them and report sightings.
The nutria is an invasive rodent that has recently been discovered in rivers and wetlands near Modesto and Merced. California officials hope to eradicate them before they can become established.
A gaping hole was discovered in the Oroville Dam main spillway on Feb. 7, 2017, marking the start of a crisis that eventually led to the evacuation of 188,000 downstream residents. A little over a year later, work continues between the emergency s
About 45 percent of California was experiencing some level of drought conditions as of Feb. 6, 2018. That’s according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, which is compiled by multiple federal agencies.
Assemblyman James Gallagher, R-Yuba City, holds a press conference outside of the Capitol Monday, Feb. 12, 2018, to mark the one-year anniversary of the Oroville Dam evacuations and the passage of his bill to tighten dam inspection standards. Lawm
Here are the first hours of the flood that would have occurred had Lake Oroville’s emergency spillway failed, based on a computer analysis by UC Irvine’s FloodRise program.
Sites Reservoir is a $5.1 billion project that would take water piped from the Sacramento River 14 miles away, and store 1.8 million acre-feet of water for participating water agencies throughout the Sacramento Valley and as far away as Southern C
A Feb. 1 snow survey by the Department of Water Resources in Phillips Station, Calif. revealed that, while the snowpack has tripled since last month's survey, it is still far below average.
Crews install rebar for the emergency spillway weir and use giant blades to even out the cut-off-wall as phase 2 of the Oroville Dam site repairs continue on January 31, 2018.
In Sacramento and in Los Banos, groups presented two very different views of a Trump administration plan to pump more river water farmers to the San Joaquin Valley.
