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Damage to Oroville’s Main Spillway ‘Was an Accident Waiting to Happen’

February 22, 2017 - in Corporate, News

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 the maximum flow that engineers designed the system to handle. The spillway began breaking apart when…