The failure of Glen Canyon Dam to produce hydropower, in isolation, would be bothersome for energy markets but not a catastrophe. It would raise the cost of electricity for 5 million retail power ...

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 ...

In 1963, Glen Canyon was pronounced dead. Glen Canyon Dam had submerged its fabled grottoes, Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings and slickrock chutes beneath the stagnant water of Lake Powell, and ...

So much runoff rushed out of the mountains, it nearly burst Glen Canyon Dam. The story of the dam’s near failure arguably became the biggest news reported by High Country News that decade. Click ...

Lake Powell’s long decline may be on hiatus after this year’s snowy winter, but activists still are raising concerns that climate change could render Glen Canyon Dam inoperable.

Failure to act would result in Lake Powell reaching a critical elevation of 3,525 ... Glen Canyon Dam’s hydropower turbines cannot be safely operated at elevations below 3,490 feet — the ...

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation shouldn’t rely on four underwater steel tubes adjoining Glen Canyon Dam as the only means of releasing water downstream when Lake Powell falls below the lowest ...

Failure to prevent bass from passing through Glen Canyon Dam and reproducing downstream threatens this largest and last remaining source population of the chub. Since 2016 the Bureau has said it would ...

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 ...

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 ...