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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...

OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Water levels dropped Monday at California’s Lake Oroville, stopping water from spilling over a massive dam’s potentially hazardous emergency spillway after authorities ordered the evacuation of nearly 200,000 people from towns...

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...

Residents below the tallest dam in the United States, near Oroville in Northern California, were urgently ordered to evacuate on Sunday after a spillway appeared for a time to be in danger of imminent collapse. 65,000 cfs of water flow through a damaged...

CALIFORNIA — (CNN) At least 188,000 people have evacuated from several Northern California counties after damage to a spillway at the Oroville Dam. The dam, which is the nation’s tallest, remains intact. But the emergency spillway, which guards against...