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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — 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. The “river ...

With the reservoir now just 32 feet away from “minimum power pool” — the point at which Glen Canyon Dam would no longer generate power for six states — federal officials are studying the ...

"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.

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.

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will examine the possibility of drilling tunnels through Glen Canyon Dam to ensure water ... big floods — such as in June 1983 when floodwaters forced Glen Canyon ...