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 ...

Arizona water officials are concerned that a series of important steel tubes buried well underneath Glen Canyon Dam were damaged ... flood in the river in June 1983. Runoff into Powell exceeded ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Their probable goal: To pack the tanker truck with explosives and blowup Glen Canyon Dam. Back then, the idea of draining Lake Powell was fringe, attractive to anti-government extremists and ...

"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.

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 ...

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 ...