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...
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canyons carved by the Colorado River and its tributaries. In 1963, a reservoir, Lake Powell, was created by the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam,...
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The Glen Canyon Bridge or Glen Canyon Dam Bridge is a steel arch bridge in Coconino County, Arizona, carrying U.S. Route 89 across the Colorado River...
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Lake Powell (category Glen Canyon National Recreation Area)
was created by the flooding of Glen Canyon by the Glen Canyon Dam, which also led to the 1972 creation of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, a popular...
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Glen Canyon Dam, a concrete arch dam on the Colorado River in the American state of Arizona, is viewed as carrying a large amount of risk, most notably...
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Glen Canyon, which was flooded by the Glen Canyon Dam, completed in 1966, and is now mostly submerged beneath the waters of Lake Powell. Glen Canyon NRA...
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particular case of the Glen Canyon Dam, the originally warm, sediment-filled, muddy water, instead runs cold and clear through the Grand Canyon, which has significant...
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point and all tributaries. The Glen Canyon Unit, which consists of the Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powell and the Glen Canyon Powerplant, is the largest and...
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development purposes. The Echo Park project was abandoned in favor of Glen Canyon Dam on the main stem of the Colorado, in lands that were not at that time...
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excavate the canyon. Dams in particular have upset patterns of sediment transport and deposition. Controlled floods from Glen Canyon Dam upstream have...
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Page is a city in Coconino County, Arizona, United States, near the Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city...
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another crossing was the former Glen Canyon reach, but it is now flooded under Lake Powell, formed by Glen Canyon Dam 16 miles (26 km) upstream. Lees...
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formed by Glen Canyon Dam 185 miles (298 km) downstream. Lake Powell, a popular houseboating destination, is surrounded by the Glen Canyon National Recreation...
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Gila cypha. The Grand Canyon Protection Act of 1992 reduced stage fluctuation of water releases from Glen Canyon Dam. Glen Canyon Environmental Studies...
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the Glen Canyon Dam can continue to generate hydropower. Between 2003 and 2011, 2,215 mining claims had been requested that are adjacent to the canyon, including...
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Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. Constructed...
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Katie Lee (singer) (category Early Grand Canyon river runners)
rafting. She was a vocal opponent of Glen Canyon Dam, which closed its gates in 1963, and called for the canyon to be returned to its natural state. For...
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Colorado River (redirect from Environmental impacts of dams on the Colorado River)
enters northern Arizona, where since the 1960s Glen Canyon Dam near Page has flooded the Glen Canyon reach of the river, forming Lake Powell for hydroelectricity...
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Big Water, Utah (redirect from Glen Canyon City, Utah)
US-89 near Lake Powell and the Glen Canyon Dam. It was originally called Glen Canyon City and housed workers who built the dam in the 1950s. Big Water made...
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Dworshak Dam, 3rd Hungry Horse Dam, 10th Fontana Dam, 20th Oroville (1) Hoover (2) Dworshak (3) Glen Canyon (4) New Bullards Bar (5) New Melones (6) Mossyrock...
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rock in Wahweap Bay in Lake Powell in Glen Canyon Recreation Area less than 10 miles (16 km) from Glen Canyon Dam. It is located within Kane County, Utah...
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Glen Canyon Dam. Their headquarters are in Salt Lake City. Shortly after its founding, GCI commissioned eight studies on the effects of current Glen Canyon...
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Horseshoe Bend (Arizona) (category Glen Canyon National Recreation Area)
rim of the Grand Canyon." Horseshoe Bend is located 5 miles (8 km) downstream from the Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell within Glen Canyon National Recreation...
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Bridge Canyon Dam, also called Hualapai Dam, was a proposed dam in the lower Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, in northern Arizona in the United States...
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Ecology in Tailwater Stream Communities: The Colorado River Below Glen Canyon Dam, Arizona". Journal of Phycology. 34 (5): 734–740. doi:10.1046/j.1529-8817...
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notable features on the Colorado River through Marble Canyon and Grand Canyon below Glen Canyon Dam, in order of their position downstream of Lee's Ferry...
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Lake Mead (category Reservoirs and dams in National Park Service areas)
Mountains. Inflows to the lake are largely moderated by the upstream Glen Canyon Dam, which is required to release around 8.23 million acre-feet (10,150...
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reservoir impounded by Glen Canyon Dam. National parks (from south to north to south clockwise): Petrified Forest National Park Grand Canyon National Park Zion...
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Parker Dam (AZ-CA) Hoover Dam (AZ-NV) Glen Canyon Dam (AZ) Grand Valley Diversion Dam (CO) Granby Dam (CO) Blue Mesa Dam (CO) Fontenelle Dam (WY) Green...
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controversial Glen Canyon Dam was part of this "compromise for Echo Park", but in reality the Bureau had always planned to build a dam at Glen Canyon regardless...
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