Emergency spillway. That extended beyond butte county and extended into yuma county. People are urged to move to higher ground. To give you an idea of where Lake Oroville is, it is at capacity sitting about 25 miles southeast of chico. The dam is the nations tallest. It was completed back in 1968 and can store as much as 3. 5 million acre feet of water. We are waiting for a live News Conference in oroville from department of water supervisor officials and the butte county sheriff to bring us up to date scheduled to begin at 9 00 tonight and then pushed back to 10 00 tonight. It still has not started. As soon as it does we will go there live to get the very latest on whats happening at the dam. In the meantime we want to go to Monte Francis who has developing stories. Reporter heather and ken we know this is a ten this is a potentially dangerous storm. We are trying to figure out the degree of it. 130,000 people under evacuation in three counties. Traffic is a mess. Cars are lined up fo
On sunday officials noted a hole in that spillway is more water flowed into the lake. They thought it would fail so they issued an emergency evacuation for nearly 200 they thought it would fail so they issued an emergency evacuation for nearly 200,000 people. Extended beyond butte county in to sumter county. As they urge people in low lying areas to move to higher ground. The governor. Issued an emergency order. Experts are emphasizing the orville dam is not in danger. They want to stress the problem is erosion on the emergency spillway. Water Officials Say they need to lower the level lake by 50 feet in the next few days to prepare for another storm. With so many People Living below the orville down order to leave their homes nearby Evacuation Centers are filling up. Alex savage is now in chico this morning where some people are saying at the fairgrounds. Reporter we are at the Silver Dollar fairgrounds in the town of chico. We just got here a short time ago. This is the parking lot b
Capacity 25 miles southeast of chico is the tallest in the country. Evacuation orders extend beyond butte county into yuba county. Paul chambers is in our newsroom. He has the latest developments in a few minutes. The spoke to steve paulson. Weather is a big factor. We have about three more days and rain is going to turn. The inflow has been coming down. That should lower the lake 4 or 5 feet. They need to lower it 50 feet. At least is not coming over the emergency spillway anymore. It picked out at 1 am sunday morning. The inflow has gone down. There is a huge snowpack still up there. That is not an issue right now but in march be might be in march and april. The rain returns on thursday and michael for a while. Still 100,000 coming up. They are trying to get that lower so they can do some work on the emergency spillway. It peaked out now it is below capacity level of 900. Water levels are slowly dropping. That is the good news. Three more days of a break and rain returns. There are s
Homes because of fear the emergency spillway could collapse. The danger has eased a bit. We are not out of the woods yet. We will have the latest on the situation as mornings on 2 continues. Monday morning february 13. We are starting 188 we are starting 188,000 people are under Evacuation Orders right now. State and local officials warned that the emergency spillway of the oroville dam might fail because of erosion. A lot of evacuees are at red cross shelters. Right now that spillway is holding. Crews took the pressure off of it. We showed you live a few minutes ago repairs on the spillway are happening at this very moment. We want to show you a map of the area we are talking about. Lake oroville filled to capacity. 25 miles southeast of chico. It is the tallest dam in the country. Evacuation orders extended beyond butte county into yuba county. Governor. Brown has issued an emergency order to help with the situation. He called in National Guard troops to help out. There is a Flood Wa
Water at the rate of 100,000 cubic feet per second. Lake oroville is a few feet below the spillway eroding when the water topped it yesterdays. 37,000 cubic feet of water running in the lake it is 1063 feet a second out of thelake. Our objective is to lower the lake level by fifty feet to prepare for future inflow of water due to storms and precipitation. Now this may take awhile because officials must monitor for erosion or any other change to spell trouble. Repairs to stabilize the situation could take awhile as officials decide exactly how to do it. Recently helicopters have been placing what appear to be sand bags and in reality are bags of large bolders and hauling the rocks to other locations. Where this takes depends on the dynamics and it could be 10 to 15 days or longer. But our infrastructure is holding up well even though it is damaged. Having heard that, many evacuees are bewildered when they hear there. Though look at how unusual it is. These county sheriffs are looking an