Oroville Dam
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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 high, it is the tal
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Oroville Dam spillway damage, February 27, 2017
Water overflowed the parking lot past the emergency spillway (in the background), while water continued to flow through the main spillway (in the foreground), on February 11.
Water from the Oroville Dam flows over the emergency spillway on Sunday, February 12
Feather River
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The Feather River is the principal tributary of the Sacramento River, in the Sacramento Valley of Northern California. The river's main stem is about 73 miles long. Its length to its most distant head
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…
The Feather River near its confluence with the Bear River
Buzzard Springs, partial source of the North Fork Feather River, near Rice Creek and with Lassen Peak in the background
Frazier Creek Falls in Plumas National Forest is part of the Middle Fork watershed
Aerial view of the region of the confluence of the Feather and Yuba rivers at Marysville and Yuba City