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 ...

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 ...

A set of four tubes known as the "river outlet works," pictured on Nov. 2, 2022, could soon be the only way for water to make it through Glen Canyon Dam.

The Colorado River’s decline threatens hydropower at Glen Canyon Dam. Now, officials are looking at retooling the dam to deal with low water levels. Feb. 18, 2023 ...

The Glen Canyon Dam at Lake Powell on March 28, 2022, in Page, Ariz. As severe drought grips the West, water levels at Lake Powell have dropped to their lowest level since the lake was created by ...

These historical morsels help non-outdoorsy types understand what river lovers lost when Glen Canyon and the Colorado River were slowly drowned by Lake Powell throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

As Gus Levy traipses across the 710-foot-tall Glen Canyon Dam, ... The first U.S. hydroelectric power plant to sell electricity opened on the Fox River near Appleton, Wisconsin, on Sept. 30, 1882.

The federal government must rapidly prepare plans to redesign Glen Canyon Dam’s plumbing to keep the Colorado River flowing through the Grand Canyon as the water levels behind the dam continue ...

Now, as the San Juan River flows toward Lake Powell, it rambles over a huge pancake of mud that’s 49 miles long, a mile wide in some places, and as much as 120 feet deep in the final reaches of ...

The Elwha and Glines Canyon Dams were blown out of Washington’s Elwha River between 2011 and 2014. Between 2011 and 2012, the Condit Dam vanished from the state’s White Salmon River.