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Twice in the last three summers, the National Park Service and its biggest concessionaire at Lake Powell have reduced fuel ...
A boat navigates through Lake Powell near Page, Ariz., on July 19. The bleached-white rock on the canyon walls, the so-called “bathtub ring,” show historic high-water marks for the reservoir ...
(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Eric Balken, the executive director of the Glen Canyon Institute, boats through Davis Gulch during a trip to Lake Powell near Ticaboo, Utah on Tuesday, Oct ...
Lake Powell hasn't been this low since June of 1965, just two years after it began to fill with water. The biggest worry : If the lake’s level falls much lower, it won’t be possible to get ...
Toxic algae hits vast US lake just in time to spoil July 4 swimming and boating - Exposure to the blooms can result in liver ...
Levels of cyanotoxins that were on the "high end of safe exposure levels" were observed at the mouth of Antelope Canyon in ...
If all of Lake Powell’s water were moved to Lake Mead today, the latter reservoir that supplies Las Vegas and generates more power than the Glen Canyon Dam, would still only be half full.
The concentration of cyanotoxins was found to be at the “high end of safe exposure levels” in the Antelope Canyon portion of ...
Lake Powell and a downstream reservoir, Lake Mead, can store up to 53.9 million acre-feet of water, or about 92% of the reservoir storage capacity in the entire Colorado River Basin. The basin’s ...
A lizard sunbathes in a side canyon of Lake Powell on April 10, 2023. As water retreats from the reservoir, once-submerged side canyons are beginning to harbor lush ecosystems.
But experts say the boost won't solve or even significantly delay the West's water crisis that has drained the massive Lake Powell and Lake Mead reservoirs – Lake Powell will probably only be ...
Now, as the San Juan River flows toward Lake Powell, it rambles over a huge pancake of mud that’s 49 miles long, a mile wide in some places, and as much as 120 feet deep in the final reaches of ...