Oroville Dam is on the Feather River above the city of Oroville in Butte County, California, United States. It creates Lake Oroville, generates electricity, and provides drinking and irrigation water for Central and Southern California. The dam, lake and other facilities are owned & operated by the State of California Department of Water Resources and are part of the California State Water Project.
Oroville Dam is the tallest dam in the United St...
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Oroville Dam is on the Feather River above the city of Oroville in Butte County, California, United States. It creates Lake Oroville, generates electricity, and provides drinking and irrigation water for Central and Southern California. The dam, lake and other facilities are owned & operated by the State of California Department of Water Resources and are part of the California State Water Project.
Oroville Dam is the tallest dam in the United States and is within the top twenty dams in the world for dam height and volume of dam materials. It is an earth-fill dam, stands 770 feet tall, is 6,920 feet (2,109 m) long, and holds 3,537,577 acre-feet (4.364 km³) of water. Construction started in 1961 and was completed in 1968, at a cost of $187.8 million; however, as a result of the multi-purpose nature of the dam (designed to provide water supply, flood control, power generation, and fish and wildlife enhancement), the total costs were $563.8 million.
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