“Lake Oroville is currently at elevation 854 feet, which is 46 feet from the top,” says Kevin Dossey, Senior Engineer with the Department of Water Resources, “It’s come up more than 204 feet since the low point in December…so it’s really been coming up fast.”

Engineers could begin releasing water from the Lake Oroville Dam soon. Says Dossey, “The snow levels have been pretty high, so these big storms, while they’re producing snow in the upper elevations, they’re also producing a lot of runoff directly into the lake from the basin.”