The Glen Canyon Dam holds back Colorado River water, which forms Lake Powell, seen from the air on April 15, 2023, in Page, Arizona. The flight for aerial photography was provided by LightHawk. ...

If the next two years are drier than usual, Lake Powell’s water levels could drop too low to generate electricity, federal report says.

These historical morsels help non-outdoorsy types understand what river lovers lost when Glen Canyon and the Colorado River were slowly drowned by Lake Powell throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

Glen Canyon Dam's generating turbines are powered by water in Lake Powell, the declining Colorado River reservoir that straddles the Arizona-Utah line and relies largely on Rocky Mountain snowmelt.

As Gus Levy traipses across the 710-foot-tall Glen Canyon Dam, ... that inflows are sagging from the Colorado River and power generation serving seven states — as far away as Nebraska — may be ...

Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell have long been a central pivot point on the Colorado, controlling river flows that otherwise would pass unimpeded to Hoover Dam, cities and farms in the Southwest ...

Glen Canyon was the heart of the Colorado Plateau. It stretched 180 miles through a national park-quality landscape. It was a splashy, playful section which transported travelers through a desert ...

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.

The Glen Canyon Dam with Colorado River flowing out below on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, in Page, AZ. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images Water is released from Glen Canyon Dam ...

Decommissioning Glen Canyon Dam has been a prime goal of a group of environmentalists living across the Colorado River Basin who formed the Glen Canyon Institute in 1996 to push for it.

While the Glen Canyon Dam generates electricity for 5.8 million customers across Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and Nebraska, Beard and his allies point to Reclamation’s ...

Glen Canyon Dam, substation (left) and bridge (in front of the dam) ... It is 2026 when the Colorado River Compact and a host of management programs and agreements are set to expire.