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Irrigation and water supply dam. Stanley Canyon Dam 30 ft (9.1 m) 2018 El Paso County: Stanley Canyon Creek: Owned by Colorado Springs Utilities. Unnamed Dam #1 (Lamborn #1) 20 ft (6.1 m) 2002 Fort Morgan
The Colorado River's decline threatens hydropower at Glen Canyon Dam. Now, officials are looking at retooling the dam to deal with low water levels. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help ...
Floods in Colorado include the flood of 1844 which filled the South Platte valley from "bluff to bluff" [1] to the recent Denver floods of 1965 [2] and the 2013 Colorado floods. Colorado floods are of two types: floods covering a large area resulting from heavy regional rainfall or snowmelt and flash floods resulting from isolated cloudbursts ...
The Colorado River's reservoirs have diminished to the point that significant cuts to the water supplied to the seven states that rely on it will be necessary next year, a federal official warned ...
Plumbing problems at 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 Colorado River.
The dam impounds the Green River near Dutch John, Utah. Portions of the reservoir spill over into Southern Wyoming near the city of Green River. Completed in 1964, the dam provides water storage and hydroelectric generation, as well as flood control on the Green River, the primary tributary to the Colorado.
Officials want to ease the Colorado River's crisis by reducing water supplies for farms and cities throughout the Southwest. Will it work?
Glen Canyon Dam viewed from inside lower Glen Canyon. 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 due to siltation. [citation needed] The Colorado and San Juan rivers deposit large volumes of silt into Lake Powell, slowly decreasing its ...