Federal officials have discovered damage inside Glen Canyon Dam that could force limits on how much Colorado River water is released at low reservoir levels, raising risks the Southwest could face ...

Failure to prevent bass from passing through Glen Canyon Dam and reproducing downstream threatens this largest and last remaining source population of the chub. Climate-driven declines in Colorado ...

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 ...

But when the Glen Canyon Dam was built in 1963, it created Lake Powell for river water storage and drowned the native flora in Glen Canyon and its many side canyons.

The park also contains the Glen Canyon Dam, which was completed in 1963, creating Lake Powell and changing the surrounding environment dramatically. Visitors can kayak the Colorado River which flows ...

The reservoir was formed by the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam in northern Arizona in 1963. The dam was built to help control flooding in the Lower Colorado River Valley. Lake Powell was ...