Documents and Resources Archive

DWR Reports and Plans

DWR Economic Impact of the Construction of Oroville Dam and Power Plant Upon the Oroville Area, 1956 (PDF)

DWR Recreation Land Use and Acquisition Plan, 1961 (PDF)

DWR Project Housing Needs Feasibility Study, 1961 (PDF)

DWR State Water Project Design and Construction, 1964 (PDF)

DWR Bulletin 153-65: Allocations of Costs Among Purposes of the California State Water Project, 1965 (PDF)

DWR Economic Analysis of the Oroville Visitor Facilities, 1966 (PDF)

DWR Bulletin 119-23: Feasibility of Serving Butte County from the State Water Project, 1966 (PDF)

DWR Typical Recreation Facilities under the Davis-Grunsky Act, 1966 (PDF)

DWR Bulletin 153-67: Allocations of Costs Among Purposes of the California State Water Projects, 1966 (PDF)

DWR Bulletin No. 117-6, 1966 (PDF)

DWR Progress of the Department of Water Resources 1961-66, 1966 (PDF)

DWR Bulletin 117-18: Oroville Borrow Area - Water Resources Recreation Report, 1968 (PDF)

DWR Bulletin 153-68: Allocations of Costs Among Purposes of the California State Water Project, 1968 (link)

DWR Economic Impact Study Oroville Area Memorandum Report, 1972 (PDF)

Settlement Agreement Recreation Management Plan (RMP), 2006

FERC Documents

FERC Order on Revised Recreation Plan, 1994 (PDF)

FERC Guidance for Shoreline Management Planning at Hydropower Projects, 2012 (PDF)

Butte County Documents

Oroville Dam - A State Asset, A Local Burden Fact Sheet (PDF)

Summary of Operational and Socio-Economic Impacts of the Oroville Project Facilities on Butte County 2006 (PDF)

Notice of Protest and Intent to File Motion to Intervene - Recreation Concerns, 2019 (PDF)

Report to Butte County Supervisors on Lake Oroville Relicensing, 2002 (link)

Letter to DWR from Butte County in Response to Bulletin 117-6, 1965 (PDF)

Other

Excerpts of Speech by Governor Ronald Reagan Oroville Dam Dedication, Reagan Library, May 4, 1968 (PDF)

Lake Oroville Key Dates, Citizens for Fair and Equitable Recreational Use of Lake Oroville, 1992 (PDF)

Oroville Reservoir Report 05-1955 by the Department of Fish and Wildlife, 1955 (PDF)

News Articles

Broken Promises on Recreation Development

Governor Cuts Recreation Budget, Mercury-Register, 1967 (PDF)

Oroville Dam Concession Pact Awarded, Mercury-Register, 1969 (PDF)

Waiting for 30 years, the history of Oroville's struggle for recreation, Mercury-Register, 1998 (PDF)

News articles about FERC ordering DWR to provide recreation facilities, 1993 - 1997 (PDF)

Spillway Incident

KCRA Staff (February 13, 2017). "Thousands from Yuba, Butte, Sutter counties evacuated". KCRA. Retrieved February 13, 2017.

Rogers, Paul (February 13, 2017). "State was warned about inadequacy of emergency spillway". Oroville Mercury-Register. Bay Area News Group. Retrieved June 3, 2024.

"Oroville Dam: Feds and state officials ignored warnings 12 years ago". San Jose Mercury News. February 13, 2017.

Rodriguez, Olga R.; Thompson, Don (February 12, 2017). "188,000 under evacuation orders near Northern California dam". The Sacramento Bee. Associated Press.