Insight With Vicki Gonzalez The Oroville Spillway Scare: What Happened And What Comes Next March 2, 2017 Work continues on the main Oroville spillway as Department of Water Resources officials are hoping to re-open the hydro-electric powerplant below the Oroville Dam. Listen / download audio Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin.
Environment Officials: Calif. Faces $50B Price Tag For Flood Control March 1, 2017 California faces an estimated $50 billion price tag for roads, dams and other infrastructure threatened by floods such as the one that severely damaged Oroville Dam.
Environment Oroville Update: Catastrophic Spillway Destruction Revealed February 28, 2017 Even if you’ve been following the progress of this incident since it began Feb. 7, and even if you understood the damage to the spillway was catastrophic, the first images of the structure are sobering. Listen / Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin.
Environment Officials Put Oroville Dam Outflow On Hold February 27, 2017 Update 3:14 p.m., Feb. 27: Water releases down Lake Oroville's main spillway are on hold for about a week. Managers closed the gates earlier Monday.
State Government After Storms, Oroville, Brown Proposes Almost $500M In Flood Upgrades February 24, 2017 | Ben Bradford In response to this year’s storms and the emergency at Oroville Dam, California Governor Jerry Brown wants to expedite a half-billion dollars in funding for flood repairs and upgrades. Listen / Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin.
State Government Oroville Residents Frustrated Over Chaos During Dam Evacuations February 24, 2017 Frustration and tales of harrowing escape dominated a public forum held in the aftermath of the Oroville Dam evacuations on Thursday.
During The Oroville Evacuation, Some Senior Citizens Were Not Evacuated February 22, 2017 | Bob Moffitt The Oroville evacuation order went out to 180,000 people on Feb. 12. But some nursing home and hospital patients in Sutter County didn't go anywhere. Listen / Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin.
Insight With Vicki Gonzalez Maintaining Levees — Who's In Charge? February 22, 2017 As aging levees across the Sacramento region continue to pose a flood risk, environmental reporter Amy Quinton provides an update on who’s inspecting and maintain them. Listen / download audio Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin.
State Government Despite Oroville Crisis, California Has The "Cadillac" Of State Dam Safety Programs February 21, 2017 | Ben Adler California missed one of its two annual Oroville Dam inspections last year. It has one field engineer for every 57 dams it must inspect. And there’s a potential conflict of interest in how the state inspects dams. Yet its program draws praise. Listen / Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin.
Congresswoman Matsui: There's Nothing To Fear About Region's Levee System, Folsom Dam February 20, 2017 | Ben Adler Democratic Congresswoman Doris Matsui says the Sacramento area has nothing to fear from Folsom Dam and the Capital region's levee system during this big winter storm.
