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2. Lake Powell - Wikipedia

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   Lake Powell is a water storage facility for the Upper Basin states of the Colorado River Compact (Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico). The Compact specifies that the Upper Basin states are to provide a minimum annual flow of 7,500,000 acre-feet (9.3 km 3 ) to the Lower Basin states (Arizona, Nevada, and California).

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. List of dams in the Colorado River system - Wikipedia

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   The river system is one of the most heavily developed in the world, with fifteen dams on the main stem of the Colorado [citation needed] and hundreds more on tributaries. Collectively, dams in the Colorado River basin can hold four to five times the river's annual flow, generating hydroelectricity and supplying irrigation and municipal water ...

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

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   NONFICTION LIFE AFTER DEAD POOL: LAKE POWELL'S LAST DAYS AND THE REBIRTH OF THE COLORADO RIVER by Zak Podmore, Torrey House Press, 360 pages "I had a lot of my assumptions overturned while writing ...

6. A river guide's view of Lake Powell's decline and the depths ...

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

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   Lake Powell's fall to below 3,525 feet (1,075 meters) puts it at its lowest level since the lake filled after the federal government dammed the Colorado River at Glen Canyon more than a half ...

8. Course of the Colorado River - Wikipedia

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   Below here the Colorado is joined by the Dirty Devil River and begins to widen into Lake Powell, the giant reservoir formed by Glen Canyon Dam 185 miles (298 km) downstream. Lake Powell, a popular houseboating destination, is surrounded by the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and receives over 2 million visitors each year despite its remote ...

9. Key Colorado River basins could be at a tipping point: Study

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   The six watersheds collectively support a $5 billion annual agricultural economy and also feed the Lake Powell reservoir — the second largest reservoir in the Colorado River region.