A before and after drone video released Wednesday by the Department of Water Resources is giving people a first look at the construction progress made since the main spillway split during a February 2017 rainstorm.
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More than 180,000 residents in and around Oroville were then evacuated after that spillway split because officials were worried that the emergency spillway would also fail.
Water resource officials said they will continue to work on the emergency spillway into 2019 to complete a concrete buttress to further strengthen the structure. They will also be working on several other projects to prevent future uphill erosion if the emergency spillway is ever used again.
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The DWR says 1,000 people have worked more than 2 million hours so far to rebuild the spillways.
A report released in January of 2018 determined that long-term and systemic failures by officials in California and elsewhere caused the near-disaster at the nation's tallest dam.
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The independent panel of national dam safety experts said the dam had inherent design and construction weaknesses.
The report also faulted California's Department of Water Resources and other regulators for allegedly failing to recognize and address those problems.
Water resource officials objected to the claim that dam safety was not a priority for the agency, but acknowledged that reforms needed to be made.
One of those changes made was the resignation of DWR director Grant Davis. Governor Jerry Brown names Karla Nemeth as the new director, while Davis is now the general manager of the Sonoma County Water Agency.
We have more stories, photos, and video on the Oroville Dam here.