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Feds OK operational changes to Glen Canyon Dam

Last updated Wednesday, May 23, 2012 - 1:16pm

PAGE, Ariz. — The federal government has approved two programs to further test the impact of flooding the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon and to help boost the native fish population.

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Colorado River recreation generating money, jobs

Catherine Tsai The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, May 4, 2012 - 5:43pm

DENVER -- Recreation on the Colorado River and its tributaries contributes about $17 billion in direct spending annually to the economies of six of the states that depend on its water, according to a study released Friday.

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Feds offer proposals for Glen Canyon Dam operation

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 11:28am

PAGE, Ariz. — Federal officials say they’ve come up with some proposals on how to manage the flow of water at Glen Canyon Dam.

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This winter reading list may inspire survival in hard times

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, January 16, 2012 - 11:26pm

An apology: My Sunday column said Sen. Orrin Hatch was one of many prominent people who have written U.S. District Judge Dee Benson on behalf of Brigham City Dr. Dewey MacKay, asking that MacKay receive a lenient sentence for his drug convictions.

As far as I know, Sen. Hatch is not among those who have written to Judge Benson on MacKay's behalf. I should not have included him in that column. I did so in error.

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A swimmer returns to shore, August 3, 2011, at Lake Powells Lone Rock Beach, where the beach retreated (and the water advanced) several hundred feet this year. (Bettina Boxall/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Officials struggle to keep up with rising Lake Powell

Bettina Boxall Los Angeles Times

Last updated Monday, August 15, 2011 - 1:38pm

PAGE, Ariz. -- It was another morning of chasing the water at Lake Powell. Jeff Wilson strained to adjust a floating dock to keep up with the swiftly rising level of one of the nation's biggest reservoirs.

This was supposed to be yet another dry year on the Colorado River system, which feeds Lake Powell and sustains more than 25 million people and upward of 3 million acres of farmland. Some Western states even feared cuts in water deliveries were looming.

Instead, so much snowmelt and storm runoff flowed into the river and its tributaries that for much of the summer Powell rose a foot a day. The reservoir now is 76 percent full, and its surface has reached the highest point in a decade, dramatically shrinking the white bathtub ring of mineral salts that had ominously marked the lake's retreat.

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Colorado River users could face shortage in 2015

The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, June 9, 2011 - 4:08pm

BOULDER, Colo. -- Deep spring snowpack in parts of the West has given states in the Colorado River basin some relief from drought, but water officials said Thursday there's still work to do to keep water flowing from faucets in the future.

Before this year, there was a "serious possibility" that a shortage would be declared next year of water for California, Arizona and Nevada, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Mike Connor said. That has been deferred until at least 2015, he said.

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Report on Colorado River notes climate change

The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, June 7, 2011 - 3:52pm

DENVER -- An interim report on a study of potential imbalances in Colorado River water supply and demand predicts challenges from climate change.

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Filling the gap with new bypass bridge at Hoover Dam

Los Angeles Times, Michael Muskal

Last updated Thursday, October 14, 2010 - 8:04pm

Named for heroes from different wars, the bridge designed to speed traffic by bypassing the area around the Hoover Dam was formally dedicated Thursday morning.

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