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Glen Canyon Dam began its life with an explosion ... And last week, the biggest dam-removal project in history got a crucial endorsement. Federal officials, the states of Oregon and California ...
This summer, the first of four dams on the West’s Klamath River was destroyed, unleashing a torrent of cold water that had been held back for a century. By the end of 2024, three more dams near ...
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 ...
In response, a coalition of environmental groups in Nevada and Utah are sounding the alarm about a problem at Glen Canyon Dam, which creates Lake Powell. They say in order to meet such a seismic ...
Only later would Glen Canyon Dam earn the white-hot ire of ... in Oregon came down as part of the nation's largest-ever dam removal project. Twenty years in the making, this reversal of ...
"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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.