FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2017, file photo, Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea, left, answers a question concerning his decision to lift the evacuation order and allow people to return home, as Bill Croyle, acting director of the Department of Water Resources, right, looks on during a news conference in Oroville, Calif. Over six straight days, the operators of the Oroville Dam had been saying there was no immediate danger after water surging down the main spillway gouged a hole the size of a football field in the concrete chute. But now suddenly they realized that the dam's emergency backup spillway — essentially an unpaved hillside — was falling apart, too, and could unleash a deadly torrent of water. Honea reacted by ordering the immediate evacuation of nearly 200,000 people downstream. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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