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2. Lake Powell - Wikipedia

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   Lake Powell is a reservoir on the Colorado River in Utah and Arizona, United States. It is a major vacation destination visited by approximately two million people every year. It holds 24,322,000 acre-feet (3.0001 × 10 10 m 3) of water when full, second in the United States to only Lake Mead - though Lake Mead has fallen below Lake Powell in ...

3. Glen Canyon Dam - Wikipedia

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   Glen Canyon Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the southwestern United States, located on the Colorado River in northern Arizona, near the city of Page.The 710-foot-high (220 m) dam was built by the 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 more than 25 million acre-feet (31 km 3). [4]

4. Should we drain Lake Powell? This author says yes - AOL

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   The recreation area surrounds Lake Powell, built in the 1950s and 1960s by the Bureau of Reclamation, which dammed and flooded Glen Canyon in order to create a reservoir to store and deliver ...

5. Climate change: Low water levels at key U.S. reservoir ... - AOL

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   The Bureau of Reclamation stated that it would not take further action at this time as Lake Powell's water levels should recover with spring runoff. However, the Bureau projects Lake Powell to dip ...

6. San Juan River (Colorado River tributary) - Wikipedia

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   The San Juan River is a major tributary of the Colorado River in the Southwestern United States, providing the chief drainage for the Four Corners region of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona. Originating as snowmelt in the San Juan Mountains (part of the Rocky Mountains) of Colorado, it flows 383 miles (616 km) [2] through the deserts of ...

7. Lake Powell hits historic low, raising hydropower concerns - AOL

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   FILE - In this July 31, 2021 photo, a boat cruises along Lake Powell near Page, Ariz. The elevation of Lake Powell fell below 3,525 feet (1,075 meters), a record low that surpasses a critical ...

8. Western U.S. faces water and power shortages due to ... - AOL

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   Lake Mead and Lake Powell, which are both man-made reservoirs on the Colorado River, are currently at their lowest levels ever, in part because of an ongoing drought exacerbated by climate change.

9. Colorado River Storage Project - Wikipedia

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   While the dam is located near Page in northern Arizona, the majority of Lake Powell resides in southern Utah. With a total storage capacity of 27,000,000 acre-feet (33 km 3) of water in Lake Powell, the Glen Canyon Unit accounts for over 64% of the system's overall water storage capacity. The 1,296 megawatt capacity of the dam's hydroelectric ...