Construct a new intake structure to allow Colorado River water at low levels to flow from the eight penstocks on the dam’s face into the turbines inside the dam. The intake would be built at ...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A set of Glen Canyon Dam pipes that were eroding from the inside have been recoated — two months early and under budget, according to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. An $8.9 ...

Under Biden last year, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation finalized a decision to allow releases of water to bypass Glen Canyon Dam’s hydropower infrastructure to curb invasive fish populations.

But Lake Powell was made in 1963 when Glen Canyon Dam was built, diverting water from the Colorado River while millions of years of water and wind erosion shape-shifted Antelope Canyon into what ...

3 decades later, 2 still arguing over Glen Canyon Mud deposits, referred to as mudbergs by Returning Rapids researchers, are pictured in the Colorado River and lining the river banks by Mille Crag ...

The river outlet pipes inside Glen Canyon Dam are getting a $9 million repair job, but conservation groups want to see more permanent changes at Lake Powell.

It was only 22% full as recently as 2023. Currently, water passes through hydroelectric generators inside Glen Canyon Dam before flowing into the Colorado River. Water experts fear that shrinking ...

Glen Canyon Dam is receiving $8.9 million from the federal government to fund the relining of its four bypass outlets, which have seen increasing use due to low water levels at Lake Powell.

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — 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. The “river outlet works” ...

During the dam's construction, the Glen Canyon Bridge, a steel arch bridge spanning the river's canyon, became the highest arch bridge in the world at the time of its 1959 completion.

The dam is a giant concrete monolith between towering walls of desert red rock in just south of the Utah-Arizona state line. Inside it, where the bottom of the dam meets the Colorado River, there ...