Glen Canyon Dam
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Glen Canyon Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the southwestern United States, located on the Colorado River in northern Arizona, near the city of Page. The 710-foot-high dam was built by the Burea
Glen Canyon Dam and Bridge, looking upstream
A boater on the river in Glen Canyon before damming, circa 1898.
Near Music Temple in Glen Canyon during the 1870s
Glen Canyon damsite from the air in November 1957, prior to construction of the Glen Canyon Bridge
Lake Mead
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Lake Mead is a reservoir formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River in the Southwestern United States. It is located in the states of Nevada and Arizona, 24 mi east of Las Vegas. It is the largest
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…a reservoir was realized in 1936 with the completion of Hoover Dam in Black Canyon, storing 32 million acre-feet (39 km3) in the mammoth reservoir of Lake Mead. It was not able to weather the worst floods or droughts, and was filling with sediment at a rate that would render it useless in a few hundred years…
Elwood Mead
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.