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In the history of the oroville dam which was built in 1961, i understand it opened may 4, 1968. all of that time it has been functioning as the tallest dam in the united states. reporter: right. it's huge. definitely very tall. i was here in '97 '98 when they had the last main water event which had pretty much hadn't had that kind of rain in 20 years. back then it was consistent rain. here the problem has been, you can drive for four or five days. it's been gorgeous. 65 degrees in some places. then you have four or five days when you get 6 inches. that's not normal. you have got a surge-stop, ...

In the nation. the construction on that dam began back in 1961. it was opened may 4, 1968. it never had a problem like this before. but because of the rig rainfall, the deluge of rainfall, because of the winter terms that affected the west coast, and we on the east coast have seen how the storms have affected the situations here. you can imagine getting all that rainfall in this particular area, it caused some problems. because they wanted to lower the levels of the lake itself. they resorted to using the emergency spillway and they never encountered a problem like this before. engineers are t...