Lake Oroville Community Update for February 12, 2021.
DWR Updates
![Migratory birds congregate over a field in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.](/-/media/DWR-Images/Delta/FL_Delta-1604_01_25_2019.jpg?mw=200&hash=C488F5A34C16B476744B02AA04A2856E)
In the latest Delta Conveyance Deep Dive video, we take a look at the financing mechanisms that make the project possible, both now, in the initial planning stages, and in the future if the project is approved.
![A view of Lake Oroville as a rain storm rolls in.](/-/media/DWR-Images/Placeholder-images/blog/KG_oroville_44277_11_26_.jpg?mw=200&hash=6074A81488264A25E237126F34C8AE7E)
Lake Oroville Community Update for February 5, 2021.
![boat on Lake Oroville](/-/media/DWR-Images/Oroville/KG_oroville_25971_08_16_19.jpg?mw=200&hash=ABB06EA83E2C621AE9620ACC5B3A9CAA)
Lake Oroville Community Update, for January 29, 2021.
![California Conservation Corpsmembers construct fish habitat structures using recycled Christmas trees in Oroville](/-/media/DWR-Images/Oroville/Jan2020-CCCXmasTreeInstallation_LkOro-p1.jpg?mw=200&hash=A3C687D43EA3200DD4D2021C37015F30)
DWR completed its yearly post-holiday tradition of recycling Christmas trees into prime habitat for fish species at Lake Oroville and the Thermalito Afterbay.
The business of water allocations – simply put, who receives water from the State Water Project (SWP) and who gets to decide how much – is the subject of two new episodes in the Delta Conveyance Deep Dive video series.
![Sean de Guzman (right), chief of the California Department of Water Resources Snow Surveys and Water Supply Forecasting Section, conducts the first media snow survey of the 2021 season at Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.](/-/media/DWR-Images/Snow-Survey/KG_snow_survey_0834_12_30_20.jpg?mw=200&hash=918442FD6CE3F4C2AA34B98D5BAC6AD3)
We are now past the halfway mark in California’s normally wettest winter months, and the wet season to date has been anything but.
![close up of snow on trees in Eldorado National Forest](/-/media/DWR-Images/Water-Images/KMG_snow_survey-1922.jpg?mw=200&hash=01F2A04F0ACE925D2FAC02E57B066E9D)
Lake Oroville Community Update for January 26, 2021.
![An aerial view of Bidwell Bar Bridge at Lake Oroville.](/-/media/DWR-Images/Oroville/KG_oroville_13202_06_18_18.jpg?mw=200&hash=9152390E366867D8FD0BDFCF14790357)
Lake Oroville Community Update for January 22, 2021.
![Construction crews begin work on the Species Conservation Habitat project on dry lakebed at the southern end of the Salton Sea](/-/media/DWR-Images/Salton-Sea/20201020---North-NR---GTP-42.jpg?mw=200&hash=1014ECB8D9B8DF8322AD1641A48F7AEF)
Last week a fleet of bulldozers and other heavy equipment began the enormous task of moving roughly 5 million cubic yards of soil around a 4,110-acre area of dry lakebed at the southern end of the Salton Sea as part of the Species Conservation Habitat Project.