The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is studying several options for Glen Canyon Dam to maintain ... than is currently possible. Drill a tunnel through the dam’s left, sandstone abutment, underneath ...

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 ... excavating a tunnel to the left or right side of the dam, and installing a power ...

The Bureau of Reclamation has said it will not flood the Grand Canyon this spring because of ongoing work around the Glen Canyon Dam and Colorado River. In April the ...

The Glen Canyon Dam may get a partial but pricey ... the most expensive are likely two proposals involving the drilling of a tunnel through one of the dam’s sandstone abutments.

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 ...

For years, environmentalists have argued that the Colorado River should be allowed to flow freely across the Utah-Arizona border, saying that letting water pass around Glen Canyon Dam — and ...

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 ...