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Arizona PBS By Luke Runyon/KUNC July 26, 2021 Visitors to Lake Powell unload non-motorized watercraft at Stateline boat ramp. Because the water level in the lake is now at a historic low, the ramp has been closed to all motorized boats. (Photo by Luke Runyon/KUNC) Colorado River flows are falling and with “every drop in the river … being utilized,” there is nothing left to fill the reservoirs at Lake Powell and Lake Mead, which have dropped to historic low levels. (Photo by Luke Runyon/KUNC) The nation’s second-largest reservoir, Lake Powell, is now at its lowest point si...

Outlets At Blue Mesa, Other Upstream Reservoirs Opened To Raise Near-Critical Water Level At Lake Powell CBS Denver 5 hrs ago Syndicated Local – CBS Denver (CBS4) — Amid predictions that the water surface at Arizona’s Lake Powell will likely encroach on levels needed to maintain power generation at its dam for the first time since it was initially filled, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has taken the first step toward addressing the problem with water from upstream reservoirs. The bureau announced Thursday that it was increasing the amounts of water released from Flamin...

1 of 2 Eric Bonner of Lansing Mich., visits the Hoover Dam in the Arizona side with his mother-in-law Zina Ibragimova, left, and his sister-in-law Gamar Ibragimovai, center, on Thursday . A coalition of activists, conservationists, elected officials, and business and agricultural interests gathered at Hoover Dam to call for a moratorium on what they call wasteful uses of Colorado River water, including dam and diversion projects. Via The Associated press Kyle Roerink of Great Basin Water Network, center, speaks during a news conference at the Hoover Dam in the Arizona ...

Reclamation Awards $14.5M To Increase Water Storage At Big Sandy Dam And Reservoir The Bureau of Reclamation announced today that EWS-RSCI, LLC of Gillette, Wyoming, was awarded a $14.5M contract to make improvements to Big Sandy Dam and Reservoir. The project will help meet a portion of the existing irrigation demand and help secure the water supply in the Farson/Eden areas of the Eden Project by raising the spillway crest of the dam and increasing the water storage. The additional storage will improve the operation of Big Sandy Reservoir as it will allow for more consistent water delivers t...

0:37 Increasingly bleak forecasts for the Colorado River have for the first time put into action elements of the 2019 upper basin drought contingency plan.    The 24-month study released in January by the Bureau of Reclamation, which projects two years of operations at the river’s biggest reservoirs, showed Lake Powell possibly dipping below an elevation of 3,525 feet above sea level in 2022. That elevation was designated as a critical threshold in the agreement to preserve the ability to produce hydropower at Glen Canyon Dam.    In a letter to water officials in Colorado, Utah, New Mex...