FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2017, file photo, Bill Croyle, acting Director of the California Department of Water Resources, discusses the situation at the Oroville Dam as Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea listens at 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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