New report says there isn’t adequate warning, escape route outside Oroville Dam

Communities just downstream of California’s Lake Oroville dam would not receive adequate warning or time for evacuations if the 770-foot-tall dam itself — rather than its spillways — were to abruptly fail, the state water agency that operates the nation’s tallest dam repeatedly advised federal regulators a half-decade ago.
- PUB DATE: 2/17/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Sun