Officials say that some of the water that is released from Lake Oroville is distributed locally for agricultural benefit, ...

Lake water flows over the emergency spillway, bottom left, at Lake Oroville for the first time in the Oroville Dam's nearly 50-year history, Feb. 11, 2017. Credit: Randy Pench/The Sacramento Bee ...

A drone panoramic view of Oroville Dam and main spillway at Lake Oroville in Butte County, Calif. Photo taken March 11, 2025.

The California Department of Water Resources is increasing the outflows from the lake from 10,000 cubic feet per second to 15 ...

The New Bullards Bar Dam walls off the north Yuba River while the Oroville Dam regulates the Feather River. Those two rivers converge near Marysville and Yuba City, dozens of miles downstream of each ...

Lake Oroville is the second largest reservoir in the state, and it holds 3.5 million acre-feet of water. Lake Oroville at 100% capacity as CA reservoirs see significant gains Crews continue ...

The DWR says that outflows being released down the Oroville Dam spillway from Lake Oroville will be increased from 10,000 cfs to 15,000 cfs, with the majority of the water ...

Lake Oroville completely full for 2nd year in a row Lake Oroville is the second largest reservoir in the state, and it holds 3.5 million acre-feet of water. Lake Oroville at 100% capacity as CA ...

The agencies oversee the dams to provide reliable electricity, supply water to farmers and protect communities from floods.

Re “Spillway’s unreliability was known for decades” (Page 1A, Feb. 14): So state and federal agencies, as well as several state water agencies, have known for decades about the problems with ...

This information has been taken from the Chico Police Department, Butte County Sheriff’s Office, Oroville Police Department ...