Oroville Dam holds up as officials christen new spillway 2 years after near disaster

Bystanders were met with the rumble of rushing water as Oroville Dam's gates released more than a million gallons of water down a newly reconstructed concrete spillway Tuesday for the first time since the infrastructure collapsed two years ago.

In February 2017, the city of Oroville, Calif., watched in awe as millions of gallons of water eroded the main spillway of the nation's largest dam, sending a deluge of water cascading down a hillside and forcing thousands of residents to evacuate. That scenario was exactly what