California residents, who said they were ordered to evacuate their homes after an emergency spillway at a dam near Sacramento was damaged, failed to convince an appellate court Tuesday to certify a class for damages.
Heavy rainfall upstream of the Oroville Dam in February 2017 forced operators to use an “emergency spillway,” a channel designed to help direct water in the event of a flood. When the spillway began to fail, local authorities ordered mandatory evacuations of communities downstream from the dam.
Evacuees sued the Department of Water Resources on behalf of approximately 188,000 residents ordered to evacuate, alleging causes ...
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