The game plan is to get water behind the Oroville Dam below what its engineering designs call "flood control storage," and keep it there. At that depth, the dam would have a buffer capacity of half a million acre-feet of water. But Croyle said that merely delays when the dam will be required to handle the melt from what has been a spectacular snow year. He said state engineers are using cameras to monitor the damaged section of the spillway, and are watching it from above with overhead flights. He said he would order another evacuation only if something were to suggest the repaired slope was deteriorating.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 15, 2017 00:40 UTC