Lake Oroville Dam water flow (daily) statistics along with lake level
(FULL is at 900' asl - at 850.85 yesterday)

[link to cdec.water.ca.gov]

On Feb 6, yesterday, the dam had 2,819,768 acre feet of water impounded, or about 700,000 acre feet below FULL capacity. (per news reports it was 82% full yesterday)

From the chart it appears that the Hydro part of the dam can process between 11,000 CFS to 20,000 CFS (sorry I can't be more precise at the moment). Remember, currently 130,000CFS is flowing into the lake with more to come from the recent rains.

We will know more tomorrow when we see how the flows were today and what the lake level is, keeping in mind the OUTFLOWS were basically shut down except for the Hydro outflow for 1/2 of today.

Good news article with a GREAT PICTURE of the problem with the spillway. Looks serious. Hopefully they can stablize it enough to get water flowing through it again.

[link to ww2.kqed.org (secure)]