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EMERGENCY ALERT #OROVILLESPILLWAY at the #OROVILLEDAM, Butte County, CA is in imminent danger of collapse and evacuations are in progress. “Immediate evacuation from the low levels of Oroville and areas downstream is ordered. This is NOT A Drill. This...

Update: Sunday, Feb. 12, 10:45 p.m. The level of Lake Oroville has dropped enough to prevent water from cascading over the emergency spillway, stopping the erosion that threatens the structure, water officials said tonight. Butte County Sheriff Kory...

On Sunday, tens of thousands of people evacuated after the Oroville Dam in California is in danger of breaking with a huge water spill. The spillway had been eroded by storms earlier this week. NBC Bay Area News had the facebook message of The Butte...

Oroville Dam Collapse: Anatomy of the Event Liveblogging the Deluge: The Concerns (Panic?) at Oroville Dam, a Story We’ve Seen Before geotripper.blogspot.com The graphic above (from the Los Angeles Times, Google Earth, and the California Dept. of...

(AP)– Twelve years ago, widespread destruction from Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast helped compel federal engineers 2,000 miles away in California to remake a 1950s-era dam by constructing a massive steel-and-concrete gutter that would manage surging...