Environmentalists may hate dams, but the cities of Colorado’s Front Range are counting on them to support their booming population in a deepening megadrought.
Federal workers have taken the first steps in a $32 million maintenance of the Blue Mesa Dam, the largest of three dams that were built in the 1960s to create Colorado's biggest reservoir. It's the ...
Two dozen aging dams in Colorado were in unsatisfactory condition and are located in places where their failure would likely kill at least one person, according to an Associated Press investigation ...
Colorado (KCNC) — Just weeks before completion of construction, Northern Water has confirmed uranium has been discovered at the site of the Chimney Hollow Reservoir and Dam. The project, which is ...
Explore the critical threshold for hydropower at Hoover Dam as Lake Mead's water levels approach a significant drop.
Beavers and the dams they build promote sediment deposition and modify channel and floodplain morphology and physical complexity. Beaver activities may result in increased watershed-scale water and ...
Giant dams built to tame the Colorado River have nearly wiped out native cottonwood trees along many riverbanks, disrupting local ecosystems. But new tiny dams, built to mimic ones that beavers make, ...
Vertical hydroelectric generators inside Hoover Dam are shown in January 2020. Modeling in the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s Draft EIS shows that declining reservoir elevations at Lake Mead reduce ...
California, Arizona and Nevada are urging the Trump administration to change the federal government’s approach to Colorado River water shortages. The three states say new rules should include fixing ...
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