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Glen Canyon Dam

06 Sunday Nov 2016

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Glen Canyon Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam on the Colorado River in northern Arizona, United States, near the town of Page. The 710-foot high dam was built by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) from 1956 to 1966 and forms Lake Powell, one of the largest man-made reservoirs in the U.S. with a capacity of 27 million acre feet. The dam is named for Glen Canyon, a series of deep sandstone gorges now flooded by the reservoir; Lake Powell is named for John Wesley Powell, who in 1869 led the first expedition to traverse the Colorado’s Grand Canyon by boat.

Here are some photos from the Glen Canyon Dam Overlook in Page.

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Riverfront Office Property

23 Sunday Oct 2016

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One of the historic marker plaques in Provo Canyon.

Riverfront Office Property – Screening Structure.

A screening structure once stood across the river.  This building was manned 24 hours a day.  The main road up Provo Canyon passed this site and went under the flume.

In 1952, the wooden flume was replaced with a steel pipeline.  A flow-measuring structure and sand traps were connected to the building.  Today’s automated trash-rakes at the diversion remove debris, eliminating the need for this building and 24-hour occupancy.

Dam Diversions

23 Sunday Oct 2016

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One of the historic marker plaques in Provo Canyon.

Dam Diversions – Dams on the Provo River.

There have been four dams that have diverted water into the Olmsted Flume and Pipeline.  The remains of one of the dams can still be seen in the river below where you now stand.  At one time, the wooden flume crossed the river here and then crossed again just downstream.

Lake Mead Overlook

16 Sunday Oct 2016

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More Lake than the Eye Can See…

The blue water before you is the western end of Lake Mead.  From this overlook, a mere ten percent of the 110-mile long man-made reservoir is visible.  Hoover Dam, seven miles to the east, has turned the sometimes violent Colorado River into the still waters of Lake Mead.  Today, Hoover Dam delivers irrigation, drinking water and hydroelectric power to Nevada, Arizona and Southern California.

Boulder City, the city that built Hoover Dam.

When the U.S. government started dam construction in 1931, on-site housing was needed for thousands of workers.  Boulder City grew out of the desert to meet this demand, becoming the first planned community in the United States.  Historic Boulder City is now the gateway to year-round water sports and backcountry adventures available at Lake Mead National Recreation Area.