The tallest dam in the nation sent the town of Oroville into crisis when powerful storms across ... to maintaining an “unofficial” set of accounting books, to the development of a “crony ...

of Water Resources is promising to complete by this fall a “forensic” study of February’s near-catastrophic collapse of two spillways at Oroville Dam in Butte County ... figure in John McPhee’s 1993 ...

But the crisis isn’t over ... Matthews, who three years ago wrote a book, “The Building of the Oroville Dam,” collected up birth certificates, passports and other vital documents in a ...

The state got hit with another lawsuit over the Oroville Dam emergency ... for the environmental damage created by last February’s crisis. In particular, District Attorney Michael Ramsey ...

Workers were patching Oroville Dam’s weathered concrete ... charge found in a lawsuit stemming from the crisis at the nation’s tallest dam, which began two years ago Thursday when a large ...

The crisis at Oroville Dam in February 2017 began when ... widespread equipment theft by dam officials, book-cooking to hide financial misdeeds and destroying evidence of shoddy maintenance ...