Teen’s environmental documentary about Glen Canyon Dam controversy attracts national recognition Shea McGrath was selected out of thousands of teens for top honors in a nationwide competition ...

A set of four tubes known as the "river outlet works," pictured on Nov. 2, 2022, could soon be the only way for water to make it through Glen Canyon Dam.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Glen Canyon Dam holds back Lake Powell in Page, Ariz., on July 18. Glen Canyon Dam is the second-highest concrete arch dam in the United States at 710 feet tall.

The federal government must rapidly prepare plans to redesign Glen Canyon Dam’s plumbing to keep the Colorado River flowing through the Grand Canyon as the water levels behind the dam continue ...

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 ...

The Glen Canyon Dam at Lake Powell on March 28, 2022, in Page, Ariz. As severe drought grips the West, water levels at Lake Powell have dropped to their lowest level since the lake was created by ...

LAKE POWELL, Ariz. — In a major push to curtail water use on the Colorado River, The Bureau of Reclamation asked the seven states that draw its water to cut their use by 2 to 4 million acre-feet.

Glen Canyon Dam normally releases water through a series of hydropower penstocks. But if Lake Powell drops to 3,490 feet in elevation, or about 46 feet from the reservoir’s current level, ...