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More than 200 dams across Utah are classified as high hazard, meaning they’d pose a significant threat to people and property downstream if they failed.
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The Bureau of Reclamation is responding to a request from Utah and its neighbors and suspending the releases from the 3rd-largest reservoir on the Colorado River that were propping up Lake Powell.
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Arizona, California and Nevada agree in principle with the idea, but urge other states and the Bureau of Reclamation to keep an eye on runoff.
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Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico are asking the Bureau of Reclamation to pause the water releases from Flaming Gorge Reservoir that are helping prop up Lake Powell.
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Water officials across the West have been negotiating a crisis on the Colorado River. Drought is putting pressure on the 7-state basin, and the nation’s two largest reservoirs recently reached record lows.
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A boating and fishing paradise on the Utah-Wyoming line is beginning to feel the effects of the two-decade megadrought gripping the southwestern U.S.
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The Bureau of Reclamation announced two measures Tuesday to boost water levels to continue generating hydropower at the Glen Canyon Dam.
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The releases from Flaming Gorge Reservoir come as a response to record lows, which are on course to drop too low to generate hydropower at the Glen Canyon dam.