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 ...

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.

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.

Lightning strikes behind Page, Ariz., and the Glen Canyon Dam on July 19. (Photo: Spenser Heaps, Deseret News) The awe factor. The dam's infrastructure is stunning to behold.

The Colorado River's decline threatens hydropower at Glen Canyon Dam. Now, officials are looking at retooling the dam to deal with low water levels.

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.

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 ...

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.

Smallmouth bass have plagued the upper Colorado River Basin for decades, impacting numerous native fish species, but were only detected downstream of the Glen Canyon Dam in 2022.