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In this photo taken Oct. 7, 2009, California Department of Water Resources crews do maintenance repairs on the Oroville Dam spillway in Oroville, Calif. Six months before rushing water scoured a huge hole in a channel that drains a Northern California reservoir, state inspectors said the concrete spillway was sound. In recent years, construction crews patched cracks - including in the area where water burrowed a huge pit - and a state inspector called the repairs “sound” in his February 2015 report. (Barbara Arrigoni/The Chico Enterprise-Record via AP)

In this photo taken Oct. 7, 2009, California Department of Water Resources crews do maintenance repairs on the Oroville Dam spillway in Oroville, Calif. Six months before rushing water scoured a huge hole in a channel that drains a Northern California reservoir, state inspectors said the concrete spillway was sound. In recent years, construction crews patched cracks - including in the area where water burrowed a huge pit - and a state inspector called the repairs “sound” in his February 2015 report. (Barbara Arrigoni/The Chico Enterprise-Record via AP)

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