Engineers Have Known For Decades That Oroville’s Backup Spillway Would Fail
February 14, 2017
IMAGE: 65,000 cfs of water flow through a damaged spillway on the Oroville Dam in Oroville, California. REUTERS/Max Whittaker
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IMAGE: 65,000 cfs of water flow through a damaged spillway on the Oroville Dam in Oroville, California. REUTERS/Max Whittaker
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