A strange phenomenon was shredding Glen Canyon Dam. Here's how
it was saved. By Brian Fortner Posted 03.05.2003 at 2:26 pm 0
Comments THE SITUATION Late spring, 1983. Heavy snowmelt and
steady rains create the worst flooding in nearly a century in
the Colorado River basin. Lake Powell, a 185-mile-long reservoir
on the Utah-Arizona border, is the hardest hit. Both spillways
at the reservoir's 710-foot-high Glen Canyon Dam must be opened
for the first time to prevent the reservoir from breaching its
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