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Boulder Canyon, originally Devils Gate Canyon, [1] is a canyon on the Colorado River, above Hoover Dam, now flooded by Lake Mead. It lies between Clark County, Nevada and Mohave County, Arizona . It heads at western end of the Virgin River Basin of Lake Mead, at about 36°09′05″N 114°32′51″W / 36.15139°N 114.54750°W / 36. ...
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 between 1931 and 1936, during the Great Depression, it was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort ...
The Colorado runs 1,450 mi (2,330 km) from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of California, draining parts of seven U.S. states and two Mexican states. The river system is one of the most heavily developed in the world, with fifteen dams on the main stem of the Colorado [citation needed] and hundreds more on tributaries.
Boulder Canyon (Boulder Creek), the canyon of Boulder Creek (Colorado) Boulder Canyon (Colorado River), the Colorado River canyon above Hoover Dam flooded by Lake Mead; Boulder Canyon, South Dakota, a census-designated place in the Black Hills
[12]: 17–18 In 1944, Mexico and the U.S. negotiated a treaty granting Mexico the right to 1.5 million acre-feet of Colorado River water. The 1928 Boulder Canyon Project Act provided a way for the nation to move ahead with construction of dams and diversions without the approval of Arizona.
Park rangers received a call around 9:15 a.m. on Monday reporting a missing boater in the area of Lower Nankoweap Camp along the Colorado River, according to a Grand Canyon National Park news release.
Lees Ferry, “a natural corridor between Utah and Arizona,” “is the only place within Glen Canyon where visitors can drive to the Colorado River in over 700 miles of canyon country, right up ...
It passes under the Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge (Hoover Dam Bypass), the highest concrete arch bridge in the world, carrying U.S. Route 93 at a height of 900 feet (270 m) above the Colorado River. At the end of Black Canyon the Colorado widens into Lake Mohave, created by the Davis Dam in Pyramid Canyon above Laughlin, Nevada ...