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Bookmark or Share- Glen Canyon Dam - WikipediaGlen 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.
- Glen Canyon Dam | Upper Colorado Region - Bureau of ReclamationGlen Canyon Dam is the principal water storage unit of the Colorado River Storage Project. Built in a virtually inaccessible area, it is one of the major engineering and construction achievements in the United States. Glen Canyon Dam impounds Lake Powell, the second largest reservoir in the country.
- Glen Canyon Dam | Water Operations | UC Region - Bureau of ReclamationGlen Canyon Dam currently maintains 30 MW (approximately 1,300 cfs) of generation capacity in reserve in order to respond to a system emergency even when generation rates are already high. System emergencies occur infrequently and typically require small responses from Glen Canyon Dam.
- Glen Canyon Dam, Arizona | All You Need To KnowThe Glen Canyon Dam is approximately 1,565 feet (477 m) long, 710 feet (216 m) high and has a structural volume of 4,901,000 cubic yards (3,747,084 cubic metres). Glen Canyon Dam Storage Capacity & Surface Area.
- How Glen Canyon Dam WorksNear the border of Arizona and Utah, the 710-foot-tall Glen Canyon Dam flooded over 180 miles of the Colorado River in Glen Canyon to form Lake Powell. The lake is so massive that, although the dam shut its gates in 1963, it took until 1980 for Lake Powell to fill.
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