Photos Show Glen Canyon Dam Before and After Lake Powell Water Release Published May 12, 2023 at 11:15 AM EDT Updated Sep 21, 2023 at 5:35 PM EDT ...

After decades of drought, the reservoir created by Glen Canyon Dam has dwindled to just a third full. ... If that mud could move through the Grand Canyon, like it did before the dam, ...

“Allowing the Colorado River to flow freely through Glen Canyon was a radical idea in the 1990s, but the opposite is true today,” writes Zak Podmore, a contributor to Writers on the Range.

The risk of a choke point at Glen Canyon Dam not only increases uncertainty, Roerink said, but also “sets up potential for more acrimony. ... Before joining the Los Angeles Times in 2021, ...

Nearly every boat ramp on Lake Powell was unusable last spring, and there was barely enough water to sustain hydroelectric generation. One more bad snow year would have pushed the Colorado River ...

When the San Juan River flows out of the San Juan Mountains in Southwestern Colorado, it contributes 15% of Lake Powell’s water. But there’s a problem: The river carries a hefty 55% of the sediment ...