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2. 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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. 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]

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

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   The 'central bank for Western water' Lake Powell is one reservoir in a complex water system along the Colorado River, which supplies water to 40 million people and provides irrigation for 5.5 ...

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. What happens if Lake Powell runs out of water? - AOL

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   If Lake Powell recedes much further, one of the nation’s largest reservoirs could be at risk of no longer generating hydropower for the region. The lake was just under 24 percent full as of last ...

8. Bullfrog Basin - Wikipedia

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   Bullfrog Basin is one of the National Park Service recreation sites of the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area of Kane County, Utah, United States, adjoining Lake Powell. [2] It encompasses Bullfrog Basin Airport (IATA: BFG, ICAO: U07, FAA LID: U07), the Bullfrog Resort and Marina, the Bullfrog terminus of the Charles Hall Ferry, and a campground.

9. Officials take unprecedented emergency response to crisis at ...

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   Located on the Utah-Arizona border, Lake Powell is currently at an all-time low surface elevation of 3,522 feet since it was filled in the 1960s -- holding less than one-fourth of its full capacity.