Glen Canyon Dam forms Lake Powell, the huge Colorado River reservoir which lies between Arizona and Utah. Paired with Lake Mead, the reservoirs provide water for about 40 million people.

But what’s happening now with these twenty-some years of drought we’ve had in the Colorado River Basin is 100,000 acres of land in Glen Canyon that were once covered by Lake Powell and have ...

The Glen Canyon Dam holds back the waters of Lake Powell in Page, Arizona, on July 18, 2022. Federal officials believe Lake Powell will rise another 50 to 90 feet by the end of June.

As the level of Lake Powell rebounds with this spring's big runoff, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has resumed high-flow releases from Glen Canyon Dam.

Lake Powell's water levels are ... The NPS says the release was designed to move accumulated sediment from the Paria River up onto beaches and sandbars in Marble Canton and eastern Grand Canyon.

Lehman Beardsley, left, and Terry Gunn, who guides fishing trips, pose with a rainbow trout at Lees Ferry near Marble Canyon, Ariz., on Nov. 7, 1987. As Lake Powell reservoir just upstream ...

A large release of water from Lake Powell began Monday morning. It’s water that will eventually end up in Lake Mead near Las Vegas after a two-day journey through the Grand Canyon where it wi… ...

"In the long term, sedimentation is a very serious problem at Lake Powell," Eric Balken, executive director of the GCI, told ...

While snowpack was 92% of average, only 54% of average runoff made it into Lake Powell. Central Arizona Project Analyst Nolie ...

Sandbar at river mile 45 before (LEFT) & after (RIGHT), the 2012 high-flow. (Photos: U.S. Geological Survey/Willie Taylor) Lake Mead is now projected to rise 33 feet higher than expected this year ...

Glen Canyon National Recreation Area officials said Kemper works in the Lees Ferry district in Marble Canyon, Arizona. The recreation area includes the area around Lake Powell and lower Cataract ...