The California Dept. of Water Resources (DWR) on April 17 awarded a contract to Kiewit Infrastructure West Co. for repair work on Oroville Dam’s spillways. DWR says work is scheduled to begin ...

Federal regulators are re-evaluating how they conduct dam inspections following the Oroville Dam spillway crisis, and they’ve ordered the nation’s dam operators to thoroughly inspect their facilities ...

A staff member walks by spillways at Xin'an River Reservoir in east China's Zhejiang Province, July 7, 2020. The Xin'an River Reservoir, an important flood control project in the upper reaches of the ...

Crews began to make repairs to the spillways at Lake Oroville Monday afternoon, the California Department of Water Resources said. “Efforts are underway to make repairs to both the primary and ...

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Researchers could have a new method to rebuild wetlands of the Louisiana delta, thanks to a chance finding during severe flooding of the Mississippi River. Civil engineers and geologists found that ...

More than 180,000 people below the tallest U.S. dam evacuated after its damaged emergency spillway threatened to give way and cause massive flooding. Download the KCRA app to receive breaking news ...

When operators of Oroville Dam suddenly ordered evacuations on Sunday, it shined a big spotlight on a crucial piece of California’s flood-control system – spillways. Some are old, some have never been ...

After catastrophic flooding in 2017 destroyed the Oroville Dam spillways, engineers faced an impossible challenge - rebuild one of the world’s largest spillways before the next flood season. This is ...

BUTTE COUNTY, Calif. (KGO) -- Progress has been made at the Oroville Dam after several issues and infrastructure problems, the emergency and main spillways may be ready to use by Nov. 1. The ...