Glen Canyon Dam forms Lake Powell, the huge Colorado River reservoir ... NASA Earth Observatory show the flow from Glen Canyon Dam before and after the experiment. In one photo taken after the ...

Glen Canyon Dam was built primarily ... both functions are imperiled. In April, Lake Powell fell perilously close to the point at which dam operators would have to stop sending water through ...

Hours earlier, three men had stolen a water-tanker truck and killed a police officer before fleeing ... and blowup Glen Canyon Dam. Back then, the idea of draining Lake Powell was fringe ...

Federal water managers will repair a set of little-used pipes within Glen Canyon Dam after ... means of passing water from Lake Powell to the other side of the dam. The pipes are only capable ...

While Lake Powell stores water for delivery to the ... Bush administration, among the most avid proponents of maintaining the Glen Canyon Dam before his death in a 2008 plane crash.

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 ...

LAKE POWELL, Ariz. — The water levels at Lake Powell have dropped so low that the turbines at the Glen Canyon Dam hydroelectric plant could stop functioning. And even after an above-average snow ...

Glen Canyon Dam holds back Lake Powell on Nov. 2 ... Wildlife advocates criticized those plans even before the news of damage to the river outlet works, which could further jeopardize native ...

If Lake Powell continues to shrink, they may be the only way to get water out of it and into the Colorado River. "In nearly 60 years of operation at Glen Canyon Dam, we didn't need to address the ...

Lake Powell is an important water source for Colorado River states, and Glen Canyon Dam produces enough electricity to power nearly half a million U.S. households, according to the Grand Canyon Trust.

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