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 ...

California Department of Water Resources (DWR) officials began releasing water from Lake Oroville through the reservoir dam's main spillway on Monday after water levels rose over the weekend.

As the rainy season fizzles out, the California reservoirs are seeing “well-above average” water levels, setting up a ...

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

Glory spillway — dubbed by locals as the 'Glory Hole spillway' — was last active in 2019. The mesmerizing site is caused by ...

Image caption: A drone panoramic view of Oroville Dam and main spillway at Lake Oroville in Butte County, Calif. Photo taken March 11, 2025. On this date, the water storage was 2,881,527 acre-feet (AF ...

A look back at ABC7 News' most popular stories Crews lower lake's level to repair Oroville Dam spillway Crews race against time to repair Oroville Dam spillway Two major roadways in Santa Cruz ...

Officials with the California Department of Water Resources say that the State Water Project was able to increase the storage ...

Similar forecast-informed planning has been implemented at Lake Mendocino in the ... Meanwhile, the current spillway capacity and infrastructure at Oroville Dam, operated by the Department of ...

More than 100,000 people have been evacuated in California after fears a dam spillway is in danger of collapsing. The Oroville dam is 770 feet high and it is the tallest one in the US.

LAKE OROVILLE: King salmon action is heating up ... a Topcoat’s Kowski Special 360 dodger at depths to 60 feet around spillway, the dam, and east wall from the Green Bridge to the mouth of ...