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 ...

The Glen Canyon Dam’s outlet works — a set of long, narrow steel pipes at the base of the dam — are the most tangible symbol of the concerns raised by the Lower Basin states’ letter.

A yearlong project to reline a set of four secondary pipes inside Glen Canyon Dam is currently underway, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation revealed on Tuesday.

Under Biden last year, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation finalized a decision to allow releases of water to bypass Glen Canyon Dam’s hydropower infrastructure to curb invasive fish populations.

The river outlet pipes inside Glen Canyon Dam are getting a $9 million repair job, but conservation groups want to see more permanent changes at Lake Powell. By Alex Hager, KUNC September 13, 2024 ...

“Allowing the Colorado River to flow freely through Glen Canyon was a radical idea in the 1990s, but the opposite is true today,” writes Zak Podmore, a contributor to Writers on the Range.

Glen Canyon Dam is receiving $8.9 million from the federal government to fund the relining of its four bypass outlets, which have seen increasing use due to low water levels at Lake Powell.