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Oroville, California

June 9, 2011

There's more water in Lake Oroville than anytime since 2006, so the Hyatt powerplant is generating electricity at full capacity. But there's even too much water to use for hydropower so they are "spilling" water in the emergency spillway to make room in the lake for the melting snowpack.