Oroville Mercury-Register » With the final layer of concrete placed on the Oroville Dam spillway Wednesday morning, the state Department of Water Resources announced the start of phase two.
ChicoER News » Crews are laying the last layer of concrete on the Oroville Dam spillway with one day until the state Department of Water Resources’ deadline to have the structure ready to pass flows of 100,000 cubic-feet per second.
KCRA 3 » Get a bird’s-eye view of the rapid repair work on the dam as the Nov. 1 deadline approaches.
The Sacramento Bee » In this flyover showing the continuing repair work on the dam’s spillway, you can see just how enormous the structure is. Repairs are expected to exceed $500 million. The project is on schedule to finish pouring concrete on the main spillway by Nov. 1, 2017.
Capital Press » The state spent $80 million this summer repairing 30 of the state’s 40 most critically impaired levees, but the century-old levee system is in need of many more upgrades.
ABC 10 » Officials now fix the price to rebuild the spillway at $500 million, up from the original $275 million estimate. The reasons include having to dig farther to find solid bedrock, carry away the extra debris and then fill in the deeper hole. Design changes also added to the cost.