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At least 130,000 people evacuated from Oroville dam site in California

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Source: AP

At least 130,000 people living below the tallest dam in the United States have been asked to evacuate as a spillway appeared in danger of imminent collapse, Sky News reported.

The California Department of Water Resources said Monday on Facebook that the spillway of California’s Oroville Dam was “predicted to fail within the next hour”.

The Water Resources department said crews would use helicopters to drop rocks to fill a gouge in the spillway.

Water is also released to lower the lake’s level. Water levels on Friday were over 273 metres.

According to officials, the cities of Oroville, Gridley, Live Oak, Marysville, Wheat land, Yuba City, Plumas Lake, and Olivehurst were all under evacuation orders.

Oroville Dam is an earthfill embankment dam on the Feather River east of the city of Oroville, California, in the United States. At 770 feet (230 m) high, it is the tallest dam in the U.S.[7] and serves mainly for water supply, hydroelectricity generation and flood control.

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