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No warning or escape route for residents if Oroville dam fails
No warning or escape route for residents if Oroville dam fails

Communities immediately downstream of California’s Lake Oroville dam would not receive adequate warning or time for evacuations if the 770-foot-tall dam itself — rather than its spillways — were to abruptly fail, the state water agency that operates the nation’s tallest dam repeatedly advised federal regulators a half-decade ago. Nwo

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