OROVILLE . For the first time since Oroville Dam was completed in 1968, water from its storm-swollen reservoir overtopped the emergency spillway Saturday, sending sheets of water down a forested ...

Water flows down the damaged main spillway of the Oroville Dam at 55,000 cubic feet per second into the Feather River. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) 52 / 66 ...

Spillway use is triggered once the Mississippi River’s flow reaches 1.25 million cubic feet per second in the New Orleans area, which often correlates to about 17 feet at the Carrollton river gauge.

Water was flowing at a rate of 50,000 cubic feet per second when the spillway began disintegrating on Feb. 7, 2017, after a deluge in the Feather River watershed filled the 50-year-old reservoir ...

Update, 8:55 a.m. Monday: The Department of Water Resources announced Monday that it will begin releasing water down the rebuilt Oroville Dam spillway on Tuesday. The release is designed to help ...

OROVILLE, Calif. --Water could pour over an emergency spillway at Lake Oroville for the first time ever, a last-ditch alternative that California officials said they had been hoping to avoid.The ...

The Army Corps of Engineers may open the Morganza Spillway near Baton Rouge next week to divert massive amounts of Mississippi River water into the Atchafalaya Delta. It would mark the first time ...

Over the next few days, water spewing through a Mississippi River floodgate will crawl through the swamps of Louisiana's Cajun country, chasing people and animals to higher ground while leaving ...

Six days after a storm-fed Mississippi River began to drop, the Army Corps of Engineers began closing bays at the Bonnet Carre Spillway. The corps announced Wednesday that it would ...

MORGANZA, La. — Over the next few days, water spewing through a Mississippi River floodgate will crawl through the swamps of Louisiana's Cajun country, chasing people and animals to higher ...

NEW ORLEANS – Plans to open a major Mississippi River spillway have been canceled. Part of the Morganza Spillway structure northwest of Baton Rouge had been scheduled to open Sunday. But a U.S ...

(Phys.org) -- A team of geologists, civil engineers and one representative from the US Army Corp of engineers has found that when a spillway was opened last year to prevent flooding of the ...