www.sensemetrics.com OROVILLE DAM PROBLEM Oroville Dam was constructed in 1968 and stands as the tallest earthen dam in the United States, at a height of 770 feet. The Dam impounds Lake Oroville which is the second largest man-made lake in California and stores more than 3.5 million acre-feet of water. Lake Oroville is a mixed-use facility providing recreation, flood control, water storage, and hydroelectric power. The Oroville Dam facility includes six power generating turbines in the Edward Hyatt Powerplant and two spillways: a gated, concrete-lined Flood Control Outlet (FCO) and a concrete monolith weir with an unlined spill area (Emergency Spillway). On February 7, 2017, damage occurred to the Oroville Dam’s FCO during flood control operations during an extraordinary precipitat

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