Sitting about 35 miles southeast of Las Vegas, the Hoover Dam spans the Colorado River and the Black Canyon (which separates Nevada and Arizona). The immense concrete structure – which confines ...
The Hoover Dam is also now a major tourist attraction with around a million visitors a year. Before the dam could be built the engineers had to divert the Colorado River away from the build site. They ...
A Braun-Jensen crew pours concrete into forms on the front face of the Galloway Diversion Dam on the Weiser River. The ...
Researchers call the free river rule an archaic “loophole” that should be closed to properly manage the state’s water ...
The sun sets on Lake Powell near Bullfrog Marina in Utah on July 15, 2024. The Colorado River’s reservoirs have shrunk to record lows in recent years, and negotiators are tasked with decreasing ...
Nov. 11, 2009, was an ordinary day for two construction workers on a highway near the historic Hoover Dam on the border of Nevada and Arizona. That is, until something out of the ordinary caught ...