Crews Work Toward Makeshift Oroville Dam Spillway Fix While Evacuees Wait

OROVILLE (CBS13) — It’s repair work to prevent a flooding catastrophe.
Crews are busy working on a makeshift fix, creating piles of boulders on the eroded Oroville Dam’s emergency spillway to prevent it from failing.
Two helicopters raised 1,000 pound bags of the boulders, one by one. Delivering them minute by minute onto the eroded emergency spillway.
The impressive makeshift air operation to prevent the emergency spillway failure, played out above an equally busy ground opera