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Oroville Dam. Oroville Dam is an earthfill embankment dam on the Feather River east of the city of Oroville, California, in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of the Sacramento Valley. At 770 feet (235 m) high, it is the tallest dam in the U.S. [8] and serves mainly for water supply, hydroelectricity generation, and flood control.
The Oroville dam before the crisis, with main spillway center and overflow spillway immediately to the left, above vegetation. For flood control purposes, some space in Oroville Reservoir has to be kept dry to capture floodwaters, a practice that has caused controversy at other dams of California over the amounts of water wasted. [6]
At 770 feet (230 m), Oroville is the tallest dam in the United States; [24] by volume it is the largest dam in California. Authorized by an emergency flood control measure in 1957, [25] Oroville Dam was built between 1961 and 1967 with the reservoir filling for the first time in 1968. [26]
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The Oroville–Thermalito Complex was designed as an efficient water and power storage and conveyance system. All reservoirs and canals, combined, store about 3,620,000 acre-feet (4.47 km 3) when at max capacity, and generate power from releases made through Hyatt Powerplant and two other generating plants in nearby Thermalito.
It will be the biggest dam built in California in roughly a half century, since 1979, when the federal government completed New Melones in Calaveras County. ... Oroville and Folsom.
Water diversions, especially from Lake Oroville, has reduced the streamflow of the Feather River. The USGS has operated a stream gage downriver of Oroville Dam since 1902. The river's average annual discharge between 1902 and 1967, before the dam was built, was 5,834 cubic feet per second (165.2 m 3 /s).
Lake Oroville [1] is a reservoir formed by the Oroville Dam impounding the Feather River, located in Butte County, northern California.The lake is situated 5 miles (8 km) northeast of the city of Oroville, within the Lake Oroville State Recreation Area, in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada.