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Xolodno

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16. He wanted to build a dam just outside the Grand Canyon National Park boundaries.

Reply to hatrack (Reply #14)

Mon Aug 18, 2025, 07:30 PM

Aug 2025

Even claimed the new lake would improve views of the Grand Canyon. The Sierra Club went on offense and said "would flood the Sistine Chapel just so you could get closer to view the cieling?"

If that guy saw a river, he wanted to dam it.

Hetch Hetchy is another I like to see deconstructed. Granted its still needed, but several smaller and modern dams can do the same further down. Of course it will take ages to restore the area.

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Lake Powell [View all] VGNonly Aug 2025 OP

I hope I live long enough to see that dam removed. hunter Aug 2025 #1

Seldom Seen? Thunderbeast Aug 2025 #4

"Let's pray for a little pre-cision earthquake" VGNonly Aug 2025 #13

Isn't there just a gigantic valve somewhere that Dumb Don can order the Army Corps of Engineers... Ol Janx Spirit Aug 2025 #2

BOR now projecting that power generation at GCD may stop as early as December 2026 hatrack Aug 2025 #3

The Rio Grande.. czarjak Aug 2025 #5

And Elephant Butte downstream is at a whopping 3.8% of capacity . . . hatrack Aug 2025 #7

Sad2 czarjak Aug 2025 #8

That's like Medina Lake near San Antonio. I think it's been at 5% for almost 20 years now! LeftInTX Aug 2025 #18

Only 31% full. dalton99a Aug 2025 #6

What is the actual depth of Lake Powell? VGNonly Aug 2025 #9

Varies by location - the original gradient of the Colorado was 2' per mile . . . hatrack Aug 2025 #10

I checked with the sedimentation rate. VGNonly Aug 2025 #11

This came out about 10 years ago - it's a more general look at the end of the age of dams . .. hatrack Aug 2025 #15

A Big Dam Problem VGNonly Aug 2025 #12

"We will let people in the future worry about that" - Floyd Dominy, Commissioner of Reclamation hatrack Aug 2025 #14

He wanted to build a dam just outside the Grand Canyon National Park boundaries. Xolodno Aug 2025 #16

The future is now, VGNonly Aug 2025 #17

Lake Powell September 3 VGNonly Sep 2025 #19

3545.40 as of Tuesday VGNonly Sep 2025 #20