One year after the worst structural failures at a major U.S. dam in a generation, federal regulators who oversee California's half-century-old, towering Oroville Dam say they are looking hard at how ...

On February 12th, 2017, the Oroville Dam in California, the largest dam in the United States, faced a potential collapse, ...

A six-person shelter team with the Dayton chapter of the American Red Cross has been placed on standby to assist with the Oroville Dam crisis. “Although no one has been deployed yet, those volunteers ...

Six months before rushing water ripped a huge hole in a channel that drains a Northern California reservoir, state inspectors said the concrete spillway was sound. As officials puzzle through how to ...

After years of drought, Northern California is threatened by too much water. Specifically, damaged spillways for the Oroville Dam could unleash a 30-foot wall of water, and more than 100,000 people ...

When California’s Oroville Dam spillway cracked open, it unleashed one of the most dangerous infrastructure crises in U.S. history. Uplift forces, weak concrete, and poor oversight combined to push ...