| 单词 | Glen Canyon Dam |
| 例句 | After what seemed like a dozen hairpin bends in the river, the Glen Canyon Dam appeared suddenly like a misplaced skyscraper. The U.S. Issue: The Mighty Colorado at a Glide 2010-05-14T21:08:00Z And while avid boaters might want to paddle themselves upriver, it’s far easier to get a lift to the Glen Canyon Dam, then paddle downstream with the current. The U.S. Issue: The Mighty Colorado at a Glide 2010-05-14T21:08:00Z The morning of our tour, we drove a convenient three minutes from our hotel, perched on a rim overlooking the Colorado River’s massive Glen Canyon Dam, to the tour agency’s office in downtown Page. She finally got to the Southwest’s most-photographed slot canyon. And it left her speechless. 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Say the words “the Glen Canyon Dam” and the environmental team all nod their heads and shake their fists. “The damnation of a canyon”: The Glen Canyon dam is mind-blowing — unless you’d seen the canyon before it was destroyed 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z “Past proposals by environmental groups to decommission Glen Canyon Dam or to operate the reservoir without power production as a primary goal can no longer be ignored and must be seriously considered,” they wrote. As Colorado River shrinks, California farmers urge 'one-dam solution' 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z It’s the latest tactic in an ongoing struggle to keep non-native smallmouth bass and green sunfish at bay below the Glen Canyon Dam and to protect a threatened native fish, the humpback chub. Chemical treatment to be deployed against invasive fish in Colorado River 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z But the challenges on the river persisted, and federal officials said they’d need to consider changing the operations at Hoover Dam that holds back Lake Mead and Glen Canyon Dam, which controls Lake Mead. What might Colorado River cuts mean for states and the 40 million people it supplies with water? 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z Federal officials prepared the initial studies of alternatives for Glen Canyon Dam using $2 million that the Bureau of Reclamation secured as part of $200 million for drought response efforts. As the Colorado River shrinks, federal officials consider overhauling Glen Canyon Dam 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z Upstream, Lake Powell has declined to just 23% of full capacity and is approaching a point where Glen Canyon Dam would no longer generate power. Colorado River crisis so bad lakes Mead and Powell are unlikely to refill in our lifetimes 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z In a letter, the groups said the Southwest’s drying climate and the river’s declining flows require a plan for “the climate-inevitable obsolescence and decommissioning of Glen Canyon Dam.” As Colorado River shrinks, California farmers urge 'one-dam solution' 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z In the past, smallmouth bass were sequestered in Lake Powell behind Glen Canyon Dam, which had served as a barrier to them for years. Chemical treatment to be deployed against invasive fish in Colorado River 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z The water level in Lake Powell has fallen about a foot this year and stands 33 feet above the threshold where Glen Canyon Dam could no longer produce power. As the Colorado River dries up, states can’t agree on saving water 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z She said she hopes Congress will provide the necessary funding to ensure continued electricity flowing from Glen Canyon Dam, given “how important hydropower is to entire communities.” As the Colorado River shrinks, federal officials consider overhauling Glen Canyon Dam 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z Today, the Interior Department’s priority remains ensuring Hoover Dam and Glen Canyon Dam have enough water in them to maintain hydropower, and the department will do whatever is necessary to ensure that, Beaudreau said. AP Exclusive: Emails reveal tensions in Colorado River talks 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z “This is why, for the first time publicly, Imperial farmers and Lower Basin states are asking the feds to study the idea: They see the risk that Glen Canyon Dam poses to downstream users.” As Colorado River shrinks, California farmers urge 'one-dam solution' 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z The federal managers of Glen Canyon Dam are trying to boost the reservoir by reducing the amount of water they release downstream until the spring runoff arrives. A river guide's view of Lake Powell's decline and the depths of the Colorado River crisis 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Workers finished pouring the concrete at Glen Canyon Dam in 1963. The Colorado River is overused and shrinking. Inside the crisis transforming the Southwest 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Her association represents nonprofit electric utilities that buy power produced by Glen Canyon Dam and other dams that are part of the Colorado River Storage Project. As the Colorado River shrinks, federal officials consider overhauling Glen Canyon Dam 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z The Glen Canyon Dam itself towered more than 150 feet above the waterline. "There's just not enough": A water war is brewing over the dwindling Colorado River 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z The declining levels at Lake Powell have led to renewed calls among some environmentalists for the federal government to drain the reservoir and decommission Glen Canyon Dam. Federal officials say urgent action needed to protect shrinking Colorado River reservoirs 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z Weisheit points out that from the beginning, some well-informed people were convinced that building Glen Canyon Dam was a mistake, and that there wasn’t enough water to meet all the demands. A river guide's view of Lake Powell's decline and the depths of the Colorado River crisis 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Bureau of Reclamation warn that the surface level of Lake Powell could drop so low in the next few months that intakes to hydropower turbines at Glen Canyon Dam could go dry. Conferees told Colorado River action ‘absolutely critical’ 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Weisheit said he thinks the situation shows Glen Canyon Dam isn’t needed. As the Colorado River shrinks, federal officials consider overhauling Glen Canyon Dam 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z Last summer, facing the latest emergency at the Glen Canyon Dam, the Department of Interior ordered huge releases from Flaming Gorge, Blue Mesa and other Upper Basin reservoirs. "There's just not enough": A water war is brewing over the dwindling Colorado River 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Federal dam managers also have started reducing the amount of water they release from Glen Canyon Dam over the next five months to boost the level of Lake Powell until the spring runoff arrives. Federal officials say urgent action needed to protect shrinking Colorado River reservoirs 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z Lake Powell has shimmered between red canyon walls since Glen Canyon Dam was completed in the 1960s. A river guide's view of Lake Powell's decline and the depths of the Colorado River crisis 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z They have also started reducing the amount of water they release from Glen Canyon Dam over the next five months, in hopes of boosting reservoir levels until the spring runoff arrives. Growing fears of 'dead pool' on Colorado River as drought threatens Hoover Dam water 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Glen Canyon Dam stands 710 feet tall, anchored to the canyon’s reddish sandstone walls in northern Arizona, about 320 miles upstream from Lake Mead, the nation’s largest reservoir. As the Colorado River shrinks, federal officials consider overhauling Glen Canyon Dam 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z If power production ceases at Glen Canyon Dam, rural electric cooperatives, cities and tribal utilities would be forced to seek more expensive options. Colorado River water users convening amid crisis concerns 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z In March, water levels dropped to historic lows in Lake Powell, the reservoir that supplies the Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona, bringing warnings of a potential plant shutdown in the near future. The West’s biggest source of renewable energy depends on water. Will it survive the drought? 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Hoover Dam's construction in 1936, followed by the building of Glen Canyon Dam 30 years later, dramatically altered river's flow, blocked sediment that creates riparian habitat, and changed the temperature of the river. Colorado River Basin wildlife threatened 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Speaking at the conference, James Prairie of the Bureau of Reclamation presented a black-and-white photo of Glen Canyon Dam in 1963, before the reservoir was filled. Growing fears of 'dead pool' on Colorado River as drought threatens Hoover Dam water 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Indeed, in Earth First!’s debut action, in 1981, Mr. Foreman and a group of activists unfurled a 300-foot-long banner, painted to look like an enormous crack, down the side of Glen Canyon Dam. David Foreman, Hard-Line Environmentalist, Dies at 75 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z That year, Glen Canyon Dam began to release water on an emergency basis after record snowmelt produced a powerful spring runoff, resulting in near failure of the dam. On the Colorado River, growing concern for trout and chub 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z Water from three reservoirs in those states has been drained in recent years to maintain water levels at Lake Powell and protect the electric grid powered by the Glen Canyon Dam. EXPLAINER: Winners, losers in water cuts for Western states 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z Of particular concern right now are humpback chub, which suffered after Glen Canyon Dam's construction. Colorado River Basin wildlife threatened 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Water from the lake runs through Glen Canyon Dam, which produces enough electricity to power between 1 million and 1.5 million homes each year. Colorado River cuts expected for Arizona, Nevada and Mexico 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z Dr. Schmidt, for example, has researched the effects of releases from Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River to restore gravel and sandbars. A Silver Lining: Giant Floods Not Only Destroy, They Renew 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z They were held at bay in Lake Powell because Glen Canyon Dam has served as a barrier for them for years - until now. On the Colorado River, growing concern for trout and chub 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z Water levels were just 32 feet above the elevation needed to generate electricity at the Glen Canyon Dam on Lake Powell earlier this year, prompting the U.S. Climate-Focused Bill Collapses as U.S. Is Pummeled by Major Climate Impacts 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z In June researchers detected the fish downstream of Glen Canyon Dam, in the same habitat where humpback chub numbers were finally improving. Colorado River Basin wildlife threatened 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z They demanded the government consider the alternative of decommissioning Glen Canyon Dam. They sounded alarms about a coming Colorado River crisis. But warnings went unheeded 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z The lower levels also impact hydropower produced at Hoover Dam and Glen Canyon Dam, which holds back Lake Powell. World War II-era boat emerges from shrinking Lake Mead 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Trujillo said the measures aimed to guard Glen Canyon Dam’s ability to generate hydropower, keep water supplies flowing to nearby communities and protect infrastructure at the dam. As Colorado River reservoirs drop, Western states urged to 'act now' 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z Much of that time has been spent floating down Cataract Canyon, near Moab, Utah, which was swallowed up by Lake Powell after the completion of the Glen Canyon Dam in 1966. The Colorado River is in crisis, and it’s getting worse every day "The National Park Service is really worried that if those populations of non-native fish get established in the Colorado River downstream from Glen Canyon Dam, that could be catastrophic for the humpback chub," says Pitt. Colorado River Basin wildlife threatened 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z The federal government, trying to reduce risks of the lake reaching critically low levels at Glen Canyon Dam, has announced that is holding back additional water in the reservoir this year. Amid severe drought, former Interior secretary calls for revamping Colorado River pact 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Lake Powell, which straddles the Arizona-Utah state line, has declined to just 24% of full capacity, the lowest point since it was filled in the 1960s following the construction of Glen Canyon Dam. Arizona officials warn of risks on Colorado River that could eventually hit California 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Citing extreme drought, the government has announced reduced water releases from Lake Powell and Glen Canyon Dam by nearly half a million acre-feet. One way around California's water restrictions: Recycle water from your laundry 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Bureau of Reclamation said Tuesday that it plans to hold back water to reduce risks of the lake falling below a point at which Glen Canyon Dam would no longer generate electricity. With water running out, California sees no relief from drought thanks to La Niña 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Powell, behind Glen Canyon Dam, currently holds less than one-fourth of the amount it held when it filled after the dam was built in the 1960s. Colorado River Reservoirs Are So Low, Government Will Delay Releases 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z In 1983, when he was Arizona’s governor, the flooding river filled Lake Powell and came within inches of overtopping Glen Canyon Dam. Amid severe drought, former Interior secretary calls for revamping Colorado River pact 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Bureau of Reclamation has invoked its authority to change its operations in this way at Glen Canyon Dam on the Arizona-Utah border. As Colorado River crisis deepens, government will release less water from Lake Powell 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z But the conundrum speaks to the wide-ranging functions of Lake Powell and Glen Canyon Dam, and the need to quickly pivot to confront climate change. Expanding drought leaves western US scrambling for water 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z In the Colorado River basin, Glen Canyon Dam is the mammoth of power production, delivering electricity to about 5 million customers in seven states — Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. In drought-stricken West, officials weigh emergency actions 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z Upstream, water in Lake Powell behind Glen Canyon Dam has fallen so low that it’s endangering the dam’s ability to generate electricity. High gas prices? They’re just what we need 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Lake Powell, one of two huge reservoirs on the Colorado River, fell this week to its lowest level since it was created more than 50 years ago with the construction of Glen Canyon Dam. Drought in U.S. Is Expected to Persist, and Spread, Through the Spring 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z He said while the reduced releases at Glen Canyon Dam “will not impact our ability to deliver Colorado River supplies this year, they are a reminder that the Southwest is in uncharted water territory.” As Colorado River crisis deepens, government will release less water from Lake Powell 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z Though water scarcity is hardly new in the region, hydropower concerns at Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona reflect that a future western states assumed was years away is approaching — and fast. Lake Powell hits historic low, raising hydropower concerns 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z If power production ceases at Glen Canyon Dam, customers that include cities, rural electric cooperatives and tribal utilities would be forced to seek more expensive options. In drought-stricken West, officials weigh emergency actions 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z Officials had agreed on that threshold in 2019 because if the reservoir declines to 3,490 feet, the water would reach “minimum power pool,” the lowest point at which Glen Canyon Dam can generate hydropower. With no respite from drought, officials call upon Californians to conserve water 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z The agency’s projections show a one-in-three chance of Powell declining so low by 2023 that Glen Canyon Dam would no longer generate electricity. A bitter dispute ends as California water agencies pledge cooperation on Colorado River 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Lake Powell's levels also are falling, threatening the roughly 5 billion kilowatt hours of electricity generated each year at the Glen Canyon Dam. EXPLAINER: Western states face first federal water cuts 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z But they warn that more may need to be done to ensure Glen Canyon Dam can keep producing hydropower in the years ahead. Lake Powell hits historic low, raising hydropower concerns 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z But the Interior’s move is a display of the wide-ranging functions of Lake Powell and Glen Canyon Dam, and the need to quickly pivot to confront climate change. In drought-stricken West, officials weigh emergency actions 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z Lake Powell’s levels also are falling, threatening the roughly 5 billion kilowatt hours of electricity generated each year at the Glen Canyon Dam. EXPLAINER: Western states face first federal water cuts 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z Although Glen Canyon Dam blocks most of the sand that used to wash down the main river channel, tributaries below the dam still supply some. The Colorado River is shrinking. Hard choices lie ahead, this scientist warns 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z On this date in 1931, the survey of a site for the proposed Glen Canyon Dam was completed. Arizona history Oct. 25-31 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z About 5 million customers in seven states — Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming — buy power generated at Glen Canyon Dam. Lake Powell hits historic low, raising hydropower concerns 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Releases from Glen Canyon Dam are increasing as Reclamation generates more #hydropower to meet emergency electrical needs in California. California blackouts are Public Utilities Commission's fault, grid operator says 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z Castle said it’s unlikely Glen Canyon Dam would be built today but decommissioning it would have “really significant, adverse consequences for big sectors of the economy, and I don’t think that would be undertaken lightly.” Environmentalists push for removing dam along Colorado River 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Bureau of Reclamation ignored climate science when approving a 20-year operating plan for Glen Canyon Dam. Environmental groups push for removing Colorado River dam 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Meeting this demand begins at 5 or 6 A.M. inside the Glen Canyon Dam, the chip of concrete that plugs the Colorado River just above the Grand Canyon. Re-engineering the Colorado River to Save the Grand Canyon 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z For the cities, rural electric cooperatives and tribes that rely on its hydropower, less water flowing through Glen Canyon Dam can therefore increase total energy costs. Lake Powell hits historic low, raising hydropower concerns 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z The so-called bug flows are part of a larger plan approved in late 2016 to manage Glen Canyon Dam for various resources. Low, steady flows from Arizona dam could benefit bugs 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z The Glen Canyon Dam plan was an incremental decision about how best to operate the dam under existing and old paradigms, he said. Environmentalists push for removing dam along Colorado River 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Officials say it will cost more than $1 billion to build the pipeline from Glen Canyon Dam through parts of northwest Arizona to Sand Hollow Reservoir east of St. George, Utah. Regulators give go-ahead for study of Lake Powell Pipeline 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Despite a number of high-profile dam removals along America's rivers recently, allowing Glen Canyon Dam to cease operations is no small decision. Should Iconic Lake Powell Be Drained? 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Glen Canyon Dam, also on the Colorado River, sustained massive damage in 1983 when its underground spillways were put to use. Damage to Oroville's main spillway 'was an accident waiting to happen' 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z She signed an agreement that allows the federal Bureau of Reclamation to manage Glen Canyon Dam and the Lake Powell reservoir in Arizona through 2036. Feds give 20 more years to Glen Canyon Dam on Colorado River 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Glen Canyon Dam holds back Lake Powell, one of the largest man-made reservoirs in the United States. Environmentalists push for removing dam along Colorado River 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Releases planned Nov. 5-12 from Glen Canyon Dam near Page mimic the river’s natural flows and deposit sand to protect archaeological sites and create habitat for wildlife and beaches for rafters. Higher flows of river water through Grand Canyon planned 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z The Glen Canyon Dam itself would not be removed. Unplugging the Colorado River 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Or the Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona looking as if it were imagined in the 3D graphics engine of the 90s first-person shooter Doom. Squiffy bridges and melted roads: postcards from Google Earth 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Critics call Glen Canyon Dam obsolete and Lake Powell too porous and wasteful to keep operating in a basin. Feds give 20 more years to Glen Canyon Dam on Colorado River 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Glen Canyon Dam sits at the edge of Page, Arizona. Environmentalists push for removing dam along Colorado River 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Perhaps, then, behemoths like the Glen Canyon Dam are safe for a long time. This Will Be the Biggest Dam-Removal Project in History 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Glen Canyon Dam would help normalize the erratic flows of the Colorado and flood a land of barren sandstone domes and inaccessible dendritic canyons — transforming them into a surreal oasis called Lake Powell. Unplugging the Colorado River 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z The Spanish inscription, which translates to “passed through here, this year 1776,” was found in 2006 about 25 miles up Lake Powell from the Glen Canyon Dam. Park rangers protect inscription at Lake Powell with cage 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z But while Hoover Dam is anchored in solid volcano-baked basalt, Glen Canyon Dam spans a gorge lined with Navajo sandstone that critics compare with hardened sand dunes. Feds give 20 more years to Glen Canyon Dam on Colorado River 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z While Hoover Dam is anchored in solid volcano-baked basalt, Glen Canyon Dam spans a gorge lined with sandstone. Environmentalists push for removing dam along Colorado River 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Glen Canyon Dam began its life with an explosion. This Will Be the Biggest Dam-Removal Project in History 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Glen Canyon Dam may be past its prime, said Michael Conner, the deputy interior secretary and a former commissioner of reclamation, but it’s not past its usefulness. Unplugging the Colorado River 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Dams were some of the first structures colonists built; later, engineering feats like the Glen Canyon Dam were testaments to our ability to harness nature and bend it to our will. The Valley Below: San Francisco is keeping Yosemite Valley’s lost twin under water 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z In the piece, folk singer and activist Katie Lee reflects on the loss of the beautiful—and culturally significant—Arizona canyons flooded by Glen Canyon Dam in the 1960s. From Bee Larvae to Toilet Rats, Our Favorite Videos of 2015 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Interior Department when work began to revise Glen Canyon Dam’s operating plan. Environmentalists push for removing dam along Colorado River 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z After the Glen Canyon Dam was approved 60 years ago, a group of archaeologists and river runners documented what would be lost beneath the flood. This Will Be the Biggest Dam-Removal Project in History 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z “It’s the lowest inflow in history and there’s been no shortages on the Colorado River, and that’s because of Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell and Hoover Dam and Lake Mead.” Unplugging the Colorado River 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Bureau of Reclamation is wrapping up a project to replace the giant turbine runners that produce electricity at Glen Canyon Dam. Feds close to wrapping up $40M replacement of dam turbines 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Lake Powell, which sits behind the 700-foot-tall Glen Canyon Dam and is the nation’s second-largest water reserve, is even more troubled. Navajo Generating Station Powers and Paralyzes the Western U.S. 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z Lake Powell, behind the Glen Canyon Dam straddling the Utah-Arizona border, was 45 percent full on Monday. Feds project Lake Mead below drought trigger point in 2017 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and other officials will mark the 50th anniversary of the Glen Canyon Dam, a structure that helped usher in a new era in the Southwest. Glen Canyon Dam celebrates 50 years 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z Ms. Burke of the Grand Canyon Wildlands Council said that 15 people spent 10 days cutting tamarisk from a six-acre slice of shoreline nine miles downriver from the Glen Canyon Dam. Arizona Enlists Beetle in Campaign for Water 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Healy is also concerned about the potential threat to native fish from predators other than trout as the discharge from Glen Canyon Dam warms due to dropping reservoir levels. Relocation of Endangered Fish Spurs Recovery in Grand Canyon [Slide Show] 2013-11-01T20:15:00.563Z Glen Canyon Dam is visible in the lower right. Celebrating Earth on Earth Day: A Few Favorite Places 2012-04-22T22:45:00.293Z With Lake Powell, upstream behind the Glen Canyon Dam, delivering high levels of water to Lake Mead daily, Mead’s water levels are back up above 1084 feet this week. Green: 2010: An Untameable Spill, an Unpassable Bill 2010-12-31T23:00:27Z |
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