Glen Canyon Dam

Glen Canyon Dam is a large dam on the Colorado River. It is in Page, Arizona. The dam is 583 feet high and it is 1,560 feet wide. It creates Lake Powell which is 186 miles long. The purpose of the dam is to create electricity and to prevent floods. The reservoir can store 27 million acre-feet of water (which is the amount of water that can cover one acre to 1 foot deep). Construction of the dam began in 1956. It was able to begin storing the flow of the river in 1963. Other websites Glen Canyon National Recreation Area Archived 2006-07-20 at the Wayback Machine Glen Canyon Dam page from the Bureau of Reclamation Archived 2009-05-13 at the Wayback Machine Images of Glen Canyon before it was flooded Archived 2008-02-10 at the Wayback Machine Article by David Brower on restoring Glen Canyon Archived 2013-05-15 at the Wayback Machine The Glen Canyon Institute 1995 Glen Canyon EIS Archived 2013-02-22 at the Wayback Machine New Environmental Impact Assessment of the Glen Canyon Dam (2006) Archived 2008-03-09 at the Wayback Machine