After decades of planning and years of construction, Northern Colorado's Chimney Hollow Dam is nearly complete. Construction crews topped off the 350-foot-tall dam recently and are preparing to pave a ...
In August and September of 2022, Oroville Reservoir reached its lowest point ever, just 22% full. For the first time since it opened in 1967, its power plant shut down because there wasn’t enough ...
OROVILLE, Calif. -- A gaping hole in the spillway for the tallest dam in the United States has grown and authorities said they expect it will continue eroding as water washes over it but the Oroville ...
OROVILLE, Calif. — Water started flowing over an emergency spillway at the nation’s tallest dam, on Lake Oroville, for the first time Saturday after erosion damaged the Northern California dam’s main ...
Around this time, 89 years ago, the Hoover Dam began supplying electricity to the city of Los Angeles.Finished in 1935 and located along the Nevada and Arizona state lines, the concrete arch structure ...