The activation of the Lake Berryessa spillway is good news as far ... So the water goes down the specialized 70-foot diameter drain before it makes a 90-degree turn and is dumped into the creek ...

Lake Berryessa’s glory hole is back in action. That’s the Morning Glory Spillway, to be exact: a massive, swirling drain at Monticello Dam designed to prevent flooding when Lake Berryessa’s ...

The enormous 'glory hole' in Napa County's Lake Berryessa is visible for the first time since 2019. When the lake's water level rises above 440 feet, this 72-foot wide circular drain prevents flooding ...

While most dams rely on spillways shaped like chutes or shafts to drain the overage, the dam at Lake Berryessa uses a funnel-like spillway due to lack of space, per local news outlet The Press ...

The drain's actual name is no less suggestive ... The hole and its home's histories are intertwined. Lake Berryessa was created with the construction of the Monticello Dam in 1957 (grimly burying ...

I DON’T WANT TO WRECK, YOU KNOW, WRECK THIS PLACE. PRETTY NICE PLACE AT LAKE BERRYESSA. PEYTON HADLEY KCRA THREE NEWS. WE TRIED TO GET YOU SOME ANSWERS ABOUT WHY THEY’RE NOW STARTING TO CHARGE ...

direct-managed concessions and the Solano County Water Agency will charge for vessel decontaminations for boaters seeking to launch at Lake Berryessa. Previously, SCWA had provided this service ...

Lake Berryessa first rose high enough to flow down the spillway in 1963. More often, the water level doesn’t rise high enough. Lee said he knows of two other similar spillways in California, at ...

The enormous 'glory hole' in Napa County's Lake Berryessa is visible for the first time since 2019. When the lake's water level rises above 440 feet, this 72-foot wide circular drain prevents ...

California has finally done it. For the first time in six years, the "glory hole" has been activated, CBS News reports. Please people. There's no trace of innuendo here. We're, of course, referring to ...