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Nearly 70 percent of rights holders ordered to stop drawing Delta water
Thousands of water rights holders, including farms and cities, were ordered to stop drawing water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta by the State Water Resources Control Board on Friday....Read More
Thousands of water rights holders could soon lose Delta access
"With the extremely low inflow to our reservoirs, we are running out of reservoir storage and other tools to meet all the competing demands." Read More
Lake Oroville spillway ‘was an accident waiting to happen’
The badly damaged main concrete spillway at Oroville Dam was pounded by massive volumes of stormwater this month, but its failures occurred well short of its designed maximum flow.Read More
Flood fears raise questions over Lake Oroville spillway
Engineers have known for decades that if water ever spilled onto Lake Oroville's unpaved auxiliary spillway, it would cause serious erosion.Read More
Lake Oroville overflow stabilizes as thousands evacuate
More than 100,000 people in communities downstream of Lake Oroville were told to evacuate Sunday evening.Read More
Reservoir levels reaffirm cries to conserve
Lake Oroville provides 80 percent of the Tri-Valley's water and is at 46 percent of capacity.Read More