Oroville Dam

Oroville Dam is a yirdfill embankment dam on the Feather River east o the ceety o Oroville, Californie, in the Unitit States. At 770 feet (235 m) heich, it is the tawest dam in the U.S. an serves mainly for watter supply, hydroelectricity generation an fluid control. The dam impoonds Loch Oroville, the seicont lairgest man-made loch in the state o Californie, capable o storin mair nor 3.5 million acre-feet (4.4 km3). It is locatit in the Sierra Nevada fithills east o the Sacramento Valley. Efter hivy rains in Februar 2017, the main spillwey wis damaged an an anticipatit failur o the auxiliary spillwey resultit in the mass evacuation o touns in the river basin. References