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The Glen Canyon Unit, located along the Colorado River in north central Arizona and south central Utah, is one of the more geographically isolated, largest, and most expensive reclamation units ever constructed by the Bureau of Reclamation. It took nearly eight years for crews to top the dam at its height of 710 feet, and another two years for completion of the powerplant. One of four major storage reservoirs along the Colorado and its tributaries as part of the Colorado River Storage Project Act of 1956 (or CRSP), the dam impounds 27,000,000 acre feet - nearly the storage capacity of Hoover Dam - and generates enormous amounts of hydroelectric power for the West. In addition to its remarkable construction, Glen Canyon Dam is interesting because of its rich and controversial social and political history. This is in large part because Glen Canyon Dam means different things to different people. To people who reflect a postwar environmental ethic, the dam and the flatwaters of Lake Powell unnecessarily defile a canyon with striking beauty and serenity, but others believe, with Commissioner Floyd Dominy, that Lake Powell is the Jewel of the Colorado and a needed resource for storing water and producing electric energy. The differences in perspective have resulted in much conflict and continue to the present day. Few, if any, large-scale reclamation projects have generated as much controversy and emotion as Glen Canyon Dam and its reservoir, Lake Powell.
The Glen Canyon Unit, located along the Colorado River in north central Arizona and south central Utah, is one of the more geographically isolated, largest, and most expensive reclamation units ever constructed by the Bureau of Reclamation. It took nearly eight years for crews to top the dam at its height of 710 feet, and another two years for completion of the powerplant. One of four major storage reservoirs along the Colorado and its tributaries as part of the Colorado River Storage Project Act of 1956 (or CRSP), the dam impounds 27,000,000 acre feet - nearly the storage capacity of Hoover Dam - and generates enormous amounts of hydroelectric power for the West. In addition to its remarkable construction, Glen Canyon Dam is interesting because of its rich and controversial social and political history. This is in large part because Glen Canyon Dam means different things to different people. To people who reflect a postwar environmental ethic, the dam and the flatwaters of Lake Powell unnecessarily defile a canyon with striking beauty and serenity, but others believe, with Commissioner Floyd Dominy, that Lake Powell is the Jewel of the Colorado and a needed resource for storing water and producing electric energy. The differences in perspective have resulted in much conflict and continue to the present day. Few, if any, large-scale reclamation projects have generated as much controversy and emotion as Glen Canyon Dam and its reservoir, Lake Powell.
Glen Canyon Unit
J. Rogers (Autor:in)
2006
63 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
| Engineering Index Backfile | 1961
Engineering Index Backfile | 1957
Engineering Index Backfile | 1961
NTIS | 1994