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February 14, 2017

California dam evacuees might not go home until spillway is fixed

  • Officials are inspecting a 200-foot-long erosion scar on the spillway at Oroville Dam.
    • By DON THOMPSON
    Associated Press

    OROVILLE, Calif. — Nearly 200,000 people who were ordered to leave their homes out of fear that a spillway could collapse may not be able to return until the barrier at the nation's tallest dam is repaired, a sheriff said Monday.

    Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea did not say how long the fixes could take and offered no timetable for lifting the evacuation order. Officials from the California Department of Water Resources were considering using helicopters to drop loads of rock on the eroded spillway at Lake Oroville, about 150 miles northeast of San Francisco.


     
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