Massive Fish Rescue Plays Out On Feather River After State Closes Damaged Oroville Dam Spillway

When California state biologists crested a sandbar along the Feather River on Tuesday morning, they expected to find at least some of the water that just a day before had raged through the channel, too deep to stand in – and plenty of fish needing to be rescued. Instead, to their chagrin, the flows powering down Oroville Dam’s badly damaged main spillway into the Feather River had been throttled back so quickly Monday that the whole sandbar was now dry. “Oh, no,” said biologist Alana Imrie.