USDA Forest Service and Pima County Parks and Recreation Department provided a budget of $79,000 for construction of Rose Canyon Lake Dam. Prison crews completed construction of the dam in 1960.

Heading into another hot Texas summer, Central Texas' reservoirs are showing signs of strain. The lakes provide some of the most obvious signs of the ongoing drought as their water levels drop ...

Rapid City Public Works Director Terry Wolterstorff pressed the case Tuesday for reconstruction of the Canyon Lake Dam, taking a rare public stance for one of his department's projects. Though ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

RAPID CITY, SD (KELO) — Sunday marks the 52nd anniversary ... the heavy rain overwhelmed Rapid Creek and caused Canyon Lake Dam on Rapid City’s west side to burst. 238 people died in the ...

An annual inspection of the Canyon Lake dam will send a rippling effect — or the lack thereof — to tubers downstream as water release will be paused. The inspection is set to shake up the flow ...

It also has a plumbing problem. Federal officials recently identified damage within Glen Canyon Dam, which creates Lake Powell on the Arizona-Utah border. According to the Bureau of Reclamation ...

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 ...

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which operates the major dams in the Colorado River system, is evaluating issues related to Glen Canyon Dam when Lake Powell reaches low levels. Those issues ...

Lake Powell has shimmered between red canyon walls along the Arizona-Utah border since Glen Canyon Dam was completed in the 1960s. Environmental activists, who have long urged federal officials to ...