"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, 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 ...

Plumbing problems at Glen Canyon Dam, the second-largest reservoir in the U.S., are raising concerns about water delivery to southwestern states. Federal officials have identified damage to four ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The continued decline of the Colorado River’s flows amid the worsening western drought could jeopardize Glen Canyon Dam’s ability to deliver water to the tens of millions people who rely on it ...

Decades into a megadrought, proponents of mothballing the 710-foot dam say now is the time to drastically rethink management of the depleted Colorado River. In the fall of 1956, President Dwight ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sixty years after workers hand painted the lining of four tubes at Glen Canyon Dam, the Bureau of Reclamation is using federal funds for a needed refresh. This time, it’s with the help of robots.