California’s dams are filling up, thanks to the winter’s heavy storms — but soon the state’s dams will be opening their floodgates to prevent overflowing.
The fact that so much of the water that has been collected thus far will be allowed to run out to sea may shock many Californians, who became more away of water scarcity during the intense three-year drought that just ended for much of the state.
If the dams do not have enough spare capacity to capture the snowmelt, there is a risk that they may fail — as nearly happened to the Oroville Dam in 2017, when the spillway wasOROVILLE, CA: In this handout provided by the California Department of Water Resources , Water continues to move down the damaged spillway at Oroville Dam with an outflow of 80,000 cubic feet per second on on February 17, 2017 in Oroville, California.
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