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The Time Has Come to Demolish Glen Canyon Dam
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Glen Canyon Dam Boulder Hitting Bridge
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'MegaDrought' Threatens Lake Powell, Glen Canyon Dam
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Water Crisis in the West Begins. As Lake Powell levels drop Glen Canyon Dam's Power Shuts Off?
Glen Canyon Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam on the Colorado River in northern Arizona, United States, near the town of Page. The 710-foot (220 m) high dam was built by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) from 1956 to 1966 and forms Lake Powell, one of the largest man-made reservoirs in the U.S. with a capacity of 27 million acre feet (33 km3). The dam is named for Glen Canyon, a series of deep sandstone gorges now flooded by the reservoir; Lake Powell is named for John Wesley Powell, who in 1869 led the first expedition to traverse the Colorado's Grand Canyon by boat.