Glen Canyon Dam began its life with an explosion. Congress authorized the dam’s construction on this day in 1956, and about seven months later, then-president Dwight D. Eisenhower pressed a ...

Rated for 1,320 megawatts — roughly the size of a large fossil fuel plant — the dam is now capable of only 800 megawatts. The failure of Glen Canyon Dam to produce hydropower, in isolation, would be ...

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will examine the possibility of drilling tunnels through Glen Canyon Dam to ... near-disaster in June 1983 in which a flood overtopped the dam’s spillways and ...

Modern critics of the Glen Canyon Dam — which has never lacked for detractors ... rather to sustain a waterway that faces catastrophic failure. | Claudine Hellmuth/POLITICO (graphic); Bureau ...

Glen Canyon Dam forms Lake Powell, the huge Colorado River reservoir which lies between Arizona and Utah. Paired with Lake Mead, the reservoirs provide water for about 40 million people.

California and Nevada recently took the federal government to task for failing to plan adequate measures to protect crucial Glen Canyon Dam infrastructure whose failure could significantly curb ...

PAGE, Ariz. — With the sound of a siren to warn anyone downstream, government officials opened the spigots at the Glen Canyon Dam Monday afternoon. It's an effort to right an environmental wrong ...

"In nearly 60 years of operation at Glen Canyon Dam, we didn't need to address the issues that we're facing now," says Wayne Pullan the Bureau of Reclamation's Upper Colorado Basin regional director.

Failure to prevent bass from passing through Glen Canyon Dam and reproducing downstream threatens this largest and last remaining source population of the chub. Climate-driven declines in Colorado ...

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