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Flaming Gorge Dam, on the Green River in Utah, pictured in 2013. U.S. water engineers announced this week they will be taking water from Flaming Gorge and two other Colorado River Basin reservoirs to bolster hydropower production at Lake Powell s Glen Canyon Dam.
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Report: 70% of homeless swept by Denver eventually go right back to place
Activists say city has conducted 56 sweeps in 2021
A new report on Denver s homeless sweeps reveals only eight people of the thousands who were moved from their tents last year found permanent housing.
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DENVER A new report on Denver s homeless sweeps reveals only eight people of the thousands who were moved from their tents last year found permanent housing.
The report is from the advocacy group Denver Homeless Out Loud, which also found 70% of those swept by the city eventually reported going right back to the same location from which they were removed.
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