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A visual journey along the Colorado River, from the headwaters to Mexico, that shows the environmental toll on the depleting resource.
The river's first diversion is here at its headwater. The Grand Ditch redirects water from the Never Summer Mountains, which would have flowed into the Colorado River, to instead flow across the divide through La Poudre Pass to irrigate farmland to the east. Near the source of the Colorado River in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
The Colorado River (Spanish: Río Colorado) is one of the principal rivers (along with the Rio Grande) in the Southwestern United States and in northern Mexico. The 1,450-mile-long (2,330 km) river, the 5th longest in the United States, drains an expansive, arid watershed that encompasses parts of seven U.S. states and two Mexican states.
Davis Dam is a dam on the Colorado River about 70 miles (110 km) downstream from Hoover Dam. [1] It stretches across the border between Arizona and Nevada.Originally called Bullhead Dam, Davis Dam was renamed after Arthur Powell Davis, who was the director of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation from 1914 to 1923.
Aerial view of Lake Mead in August 2010. Lake Mead from space in November 1985: North is facing downward to the right. The Colorado River can be seen leading southward away from the lake on the top left. The Hoover Dam is located where the river meets the lake. Sediment-laden water from the Colorado River flowing into Lake Mead in March 2013.
An aerial view of Buchanan Dam. The Buchanan Dam (/ b ə ˈ k æ n ə n / [2] [3]) is a multiple arch dam located on the Colorado River of Texas.The dam forms Lake Buchanan and was the first dam to be completed in the chain of Texas Highland Lakes.
A small airstrip was built on a nearby sandbar in the Colorado River, and all supplies and machinery needed were flown in. An aerial tramway was built from the mine to Guano Point on the South Rim, with the cable headhouse built on land leased from the Hualapai Native American tribe. The cableway crossed the river, with a main span of 7,500 ...
Aerial view of the Salton Sea from the north. The Salton Sea and surrounding basin sits over the San Andreas Fault, San Jacinto Fault, Imperial Fault Zone, and a "stepover fault" shear zone system. Geologists have determined that previous flooding episodes from the Colorado River have been linked to earthquakes along the San Andreas Fault.