Two environmental groups worry that as drought causes Lake Powell's levels to drop infrastructure at Glen Canyon Dam could ...

Plumbing problems at Glen Canyon Dam, the dam holding back the second-largest reservoir in the U.S., are spurring concerns about future water delivery issues to Southwestern states supplied by the ...

The Glen Canyon Dam holds back Colorado River water to create Lake Powell in Page, Arizona on April 15, 2023. The flight for aerial photography was provided by LightHawk.

Sixty years after workers hand painted the lining of four tubes at Glen Canyon Dam, the Bureau of Reclamation is using federal funds for a needed refresh. This time, it’s with the help of robots.

“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.

FILE - The Glen Canyon Dam is seen, Aug. 21, 2019, in Page, Ariz. Plumbing problems at Glen Canyon Dam, the dam holding back the second-largest reservoir in the U.S., are spurring concerns about ...

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. Recently-discovered damage to those tubes ...

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.

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.

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 ...

They said they don’t yet have cost estimates for fixes. Lake Powell has shimmered between red canyon walls along the Arizona-Utah border since Glen Canyon Dam was completed in the 1960s.

Glen Canyon National Recreation Area will begin construction to channelize the river mile -12 slough on March 1 in order to prevent reproduction of smallmouth bass in the Colorado River ...