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The Colorado River Storage Project is a United States Bureau of Reclamation project designed to oversee the development of the upper basin of the Colorado River. The project provides hydroelectric power, flood control and water storage for participating states along the upper portion of the Colorado River and its major tributaries. [1]
Blue Mesa Dam and reservoir are part of the Bureau of Reclamation's Wayne N. Aspinall Unit of the Colorado River Storage Project, which retains the waters of the Colorado River and its tributaries for agricultural and municipal use in the American Southwest.
The Colorado River, which provides water for about 15% of our country’s agriculture, is shrinking, ... the Bureau of Reclamation will step in and make the decisions.
The dam is a major component of the Colorado River Storage Project, which stores and distributes upper Colorado River Basin water. The dam takes its name from a nearby section of the Green River canyon, named by John Wesley Powell in 1869. It was built by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation between 1958 and 1964.
Amid historic drought, the Colorado River basin continues to grapple with low storage levels in Lake Powell and Lake Mead — the region’s largest reservoirs — which collectively are only at ...
A White House climate advisor, an Interior Department official and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Calimlim Touton, speaking in a brief call with reporters, urged the states to ...
Congress authorized planning for the United States Bureau of Reclamation project with Public Law 84–485 on 11 April 1956, [1] and construction was authorized by the Colorado River Basin Project Act of 30 September 1968 (Public Law 90-537). [2]
The Bureau of Reclamation, which manages dams on the river, said the four alternatives include: one that focuses on federal authorities absent new agreements; a second hybrid approach based on ...