Glen Canyon Dam Full of Use, Conflict After 50 years
From The Arizona Republic:
“In the late 1950s, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation built a one-bowling-alley town and a bridge to support construction of Glen Canyon Dam, which would create America’s second-largest reservoir and fuel a postwar boom in the Southwest. Before the dam, there was no Page, no Lake Powell, no neon-buzzed loop of motels for the water skiers and houseboaters who would one day skitter across a huge new lake.
“On Sept. 13, 1963, the last bucket of concrete tipped 583 feet above the Colorado River, spilling both prosperity and perpetual controversy. Glen Canyon Dam was completed, and the newly plugged Lake Powell was on a 17-year rise toward 9 trillion gallons.”