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The Bureau of Reclamation and the National Park Service announced completion of modifications to a warmwater slough in the ...
A set of four tubes known as the "river outlet works," pictured on Nov. 2, 2022, could soon be the only way for water to make it through Glen Canyon Dam. Recently-discovered damage to those tubes ...
These lower tubes were designed in the 1950s for temporary use during construction. “The plumbing design of Glen Canyon Dam is archaic,” he said. “It's just too old.
Plumbing problems at Glen Canyon Dam, the dam holding back the second-largest reservoir in the U.S., are spurring concerns about future water delivery issues to Southwestern states supplied by the ...
Federal officials have discovered damage inside Glen Canyon Dam that could force limits on how much Colorado River water is released at low reservoir levels, raising risks the Southwest could face ...
FILE - The Glen Canyon Dam is seen, Aug. 21, 2019, in Page, Ariz. Plumbing problems at Glen Canyon Dam, the dam holding back the second-largest reservoir in the U.S., are spurring concerns about ...
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 ...
After Glen Canyon Dam’s construction was finished in the mid-1960s, the Bureau of Reclamation wrote a report about its design and construction that said the outlet tubes would “provide for ...
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area will begin construction to channelize the river mile -12 slough on March 1 in order to prevent reproduction of smallmouth bass in the Colorado River ...
Recent strategies are not sustainable in the long term. Officials raise red flags over alarming outlook on iconic US lake: ...
The Glen Canyon Dam promised water and power — but the river had other plans. The Glen Canyon Dam once symbolized American engineering might. But the Colorado River it was built to tame is ...