Water levels at Lake Powell continue to fall as drought persists, pitting fish survival against power demands.
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will examine the possibility of drilling tunnels through Glen Canyon Dam to ensure water can pass through it at low Lake Powell elevations, two knowledgeable sources ...
As deadlines for Colorado River negotiations come and go, few are talking about design flaws in the Arizona dam that hold back Lake Powell.
Glen Canyon Dam, which creates the second-largest reservoir in the U.S., enables the distribution of Colorado River water throughout the West and generates power for seven states. It also has a ...
Water gushes from tubes in the rock walls below Glen Canyon Dam as the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation works to lower Lake Powell water levels during June and July 1983. Runoff pushed the lake to capacity ...
Glen Canyon Dam managers will flush cold water from deep in Lake Powell into the Colorado River to help prevent invasive smallmouth bass from colonizing the Grand Canyon, federal officials announced ...
In 1998, when I was in fourth grade, I joined a class field trip to Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. But when we got to Cortez, the road was barricaded. Hours earlier, three men had stolen a ...
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will examine the possibility of drilling tunnels through Glen Canyon Dam to ensure water can pass through it at low Lake Powell elevations, two knowledgeable sources ...
As Colorado River negotiations build toward a Feb. 14 deadline, few are talking about design flaws in the dam that holds back Lake Powell. Floyd Dominy, the commissioner of the federal Bureau of ...