Officials at the nation's tallest dam unleashed water down a rebuilt spillway for the first time since it crumbled two years ago and drove hundreds of thousands of California residents from their homes over fears of catastrophic flooding.
Water flows down the Oroville Dam spillway in Oroville, Calif., Tuesday, April 2, 2019. California officials opened the flood-control spillway at the nation's tallest dam for the first time since it was rebuilt after it crumbled during heavy rains two years ago.
The dam's main spillway "was designed and constructed using 21st century engineering practices and under the oversight and guidance from state and federal regulators and independent experts," Joel Ledesma, deputy director of the department's State Water Project, said in a statement. In early 2017, storms drenched the state and the massive spillway broke apart as it carried heavy flows.
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