California Department of Water Resources (DWR) will be cleaning and performing routine annual inspections of the concrete spillway chute at the Oroville Dam the week of Monday, Sept. 23.

The dam was finished in 1953 ... spillway’s drainage system and reinforce the concrete overlay in the spillway chute as well as safety-related modifications. “So, this $1.8 billion safety ...

It received these classifications due to the dam’s insufficient spillway capacity, meaning larger spillways are needed to handle the surplus water the lake retains and the steep slope of the ...

The authority has emptied the reservoir behind the dam, but getting approval quickly ... that work while investigating downstream under the spillway to locate any other problems — after which ...

The year 2024 was a stalemate of sorts for the folks on the Four Lakes Task Force, the entity in charge of restoring the dams destroyed in the 2020 mid-Michigan flood.

A dam spillway whose partial collapse led to a town being evacuated last year is set to be decommissioned. The Canal and River Trust said proposals to restore Toddbrook Reservoir would see the ...