California, Arizona and Nevada are urging the Trump administration to change course on the Colorado River. The states are ...

Federal funding freezes and staffing cuts are setting off alarms about the future of the Colorado River, a critical artery that supplies water to some 40 million people in 30 tribes and seven ...

In April 2024, Reclamation said an inspection found damage inside the pipes, yet another problem that Reclamation has at the dam. The high-flow experiment releases haven’t been repeated since 2023.

In a blistering letter, water officials in Arizona, California and Nevada recently took the federal government to task for failing to plan adequate measures to protect crucial ...

The damage to the check dam, which is made of cement and concrete, is approximately five feet long and two feet high. Officials visited the site to investigate the incident and determine who might ...

In addition to the ongoing standstill, the Lower Basin’s letter stressed infrastructure problems with the Glen Canyon Dam above Lake Powell. A Bureau of Reclamation memo obtained in April ...

The 726-foot-high arch-gravity dam stretches 1,244 feet across the Black Canyon and was built over five years starting in 1931, helping provide water and hydroelectrical power to the West.