The Glen Canyon Dam holds back Colorado River water to create Lake Powell in Page, Arizona on April 15, 2023. The flight for aerial photography was provided by LightHawk.

A set of Glen Canyon Dam pipes that were eroding from the inside have been recoated — two months early and under budget, according to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

Go inside the Glen Canyon Dam on this exclusive tour to learn how it makes power and why it’s in danger Glen Canyon Dam on Lake Powell produces affordable, carbon-free hydropower for seven states.

Nearly every boat ramp on Lake Powell was unusable last spring, and there was barely enough water to sustain hydroelectric generation. One more bad snow year would have pushed the Colorado River ...

But Lake Powell would still stretch 100 miles into Glen Canyon at dead pool. That’s because there is a significant design flaw in the dam: There is no drain at the bottom.

“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 has impounded the Colorado River near the Arizona-Utah line since 1963, and with it the annual load of sand that natural snowmelt floods previously churned up onto beaches and ...

Buoys hold up a mesh barrier a cross a backwater slough a few miles downstream of Glen Canyon Dam on Sept. 13, 2023. The slough has fostered hundreds of invasive smallmouth bass over the last two ...