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Glen Canyon Dam, the Glossary

Glen Canyon Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the southwestern United States, located on the Colorado River in northern Arizona, near the city of Page.^[1]

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Aneth, Utah

Aneth (Tʼáá Bííchʼį́įdii) is a census-designated place (CDP) in San Juan County, Utah, United States.

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Arch-gravity dam

An arch-gravity dam or arched dam is a dam with the characteristics of both an arch dam and a gravity dam. Glen Canyon Dam and arch-gravity dam are arch-gravity dams.

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Arizona

Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a landlocked state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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Automatic identification system

The automatic identification system (AIS) is an automatic tracking system that uses transceivers on ships and is used by vessel traffic services (VTS).

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Baja California

Baja California ('Lower California'), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California (Free and Sovereign State of Baja California), is a state in Mexico.

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Bilge

The bilge of a ship or boat is the part of the hull that would rest on the ground if the vessel were unsupported by water.

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Bivalvia, in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class of marine and freshwater molluscs that have laterally compressed bodies enclosed by a shell consisting of two hinged parts.

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Black Canyon of the Colorado

The Black Canyon of the Colorado is the canyon on the Colorado River where Hoover Dam was built.

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Black crappie

The black crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus) is a freshwater fish found in North America, one of the two types of crappies.

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Black Mesa and Lake Powell Railroad

The Black Mesa and Lake Powell Railroad was an electrified private railroad operating in Northern Arizona, USA within the Navajo Nation which transported coal from the Peabody Energy Kayenta Mine near Kayenta, Arizona to the Navajo Generating Station power plant at Page, Arizona.

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Black start

A black start is the process of restoring an electric power station, a part of an electric grid or an industrial plant, to operation without relying on the external electric power transmission network to recover from a total or partial shutdown.

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Bridge Canyon Dam

Bridge Canyon Dam, also called Hualapai Dam, was a proposed dam in the lower Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, in northern Arizona in the United States. Glen Canyon Dam and Bridge Canyon Dam are Colorado River Storage Project, dams in Arizona and dams on the Colorado River.

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Bullfrog Basin

Bullfrog Basin is one of the National Park Service recreation sites of the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area of Kane County, Utah, United States, adjoining Lake Powell. Glen Canyon Dam and Bullfrog Basin are Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.

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C. Gregory Crampton

Charles Gregory Crampton (March 22, 1911 – May 2, 1995) was a historian at the University of Utah best known for documenting cultures and artifacts in Glen Canyon before it was flooded by the Glen Canyon Dam.

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Cadillac Desert

Cadillac Desert (1986) is an American history book by Marc Reisner about land development and water policy in the western United States.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Canyon

A canyon (from; archaic British English spelling: cañon), gorge or chasm, is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosive activity of a river over geologic time scales.

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Carl Hayden

Carl Trumbull Hayden (October 2, 1877 – January 25, 1972) was an American politician.

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Cataract Canyon

Cataract Canyon is a canyon of the Colorado River located within Canyonlands National Park and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in southern Utah. Glen Canyon Dam and Cataract Canyon are Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.

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Cavitation

Cavitation in fluid mechanics and engineering normally refers to the phenomenon in which the static pressure of a liquid reduces to below the liquid's vapour pressure, leading to the formation of small vapor-filled cavities in the liquid.

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Central Arizona Project

The Central Arizona Project (CAP) is a 336 mi (541 km) diversion canal in Arizona in the southern United States.

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Clarkdale, Arizona

Clarkdale (Yavapai: Saupkasuiva) is a town in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States.

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Coconino County, Arizona

Coconino County is a county in the North-Central part of the U.S. state of Arizona.

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Cofferdam

A cofferdam is an enclosure built within a body of water to allow the enclosed area to be pumped out or drained.

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Colorado

Colorado (other variants) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Colorado pikeminnow

The Colorado pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus lucius, formerly squawfish) is the largest cyprinid fish of North America and one of the largest in the world, with reports of individuals up to long and weighing over.

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Colorado Plateau

The Colorado Plateau is a physiographic and desert region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States.

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Colorado River

The Colorado River (Río Colorado) is one of the principal rivers (along with the Rio Grande) in the Southwestern United States and in northern Mexico.

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Colorado River Compact

The Colorado River Compact is a 1922 agreement that regulates water distribution among seven states in the southwestern United States.

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Colorado River Delta

The Colorado River Delta is the region where the Colorado River flows into the Gulf of California (also known as the Sea of Cortez) in eastern Mexicali Municipality in the north of the state of Baja California in northwesternmost Mexico.

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Colorado River Storage Project

The Colorado River Storage Project is a United States Bureau of Reclamation project designed to oversee the development of the upper basin of the Colorado River.

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Columbia River

The Columbia River (Upper Chinook: or; Sahaptin: Nch’i-Wàna or Nchi wana; Sinixt dialect swah'netk'qhu) is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.

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Company town

A company town is a place where practically all stores and housing are owned by the one company that is also the main employer.

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Concrete plant

A concrete plant, also known as a batch plant or batching plant or a concrete batching plant, is equipment that combines various ingredients to form concrete.

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Crab Nebula

The Crab Nebula (catalogue designations M1, NGC 1952, Taurus A) is a supernova remnant and pulsar wind nebula in the constellation of Taurus.

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Cult following

A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to some person, idea, object, movement, or work, often an artist, in particular a performing artist, or an artwork in some medium.

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David Brower

David Ross Brower (July 1, 1912 – November 5, 2000) was a prominent environmentalist and the founder of many environmental organizations, including the John Muir Institute for Environmental Studies (1997), Friends of the Earth (1969), Earth Island Institute (1982), North Cascades Conservation Council, and Fate of the Earth Conferences.

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Dinosaur National Monument

Dinosaur National Monument is an American national monument located on the southeast flank of the Uinta Mountains on the border between Colorado and Utah at the confluence of the Green and Yampa rivers.

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Dirty Devil River

The Dirty Devil River is an tributary of the Colorado River, located in the U.S. state of Utah.

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Dredging

Dredging is the excavation of material from a water environment.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969), nicknamed Ike, was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961.

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Earth First!

Earth First! is a radical environmental advocacy group that originated in the Southwestern United States.

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Echo Park (Colorado)

Echo Park is a remote river bottom surrounded by canyon walls on the Green River, just downstream from the confluence with the Yampa River and across the stream from the dramatic southern end of Steamboat Rock in Dinosaur National Monument.

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Edward Abbey

Edward Paul Abbey (January 29, 1927 – March 14, 1989) was an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, criticism of public land policies, and anarchist political views.

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Eliot Porter

Eliot Furness Porter (December 6, 1901 – November 2, 1990) was an American photographer best known for his color photographs of nature.

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Environmental impact statement

An environmental impact statement (EIS), under United States environmental law, is a document required by the 1969 National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for certain actions "significantly affecting the quality of the human environment".

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Escalante River

The Escalante River is a tributary of the Colorado River. Glen Canyon Dam and Escalante River are Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.

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Estuary

An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.

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Evaporation

Evaporation is a type of vaporization that occurs on the surface of a liquid as it changes into the gas phase.

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Evapotranspiration

Evapotranspiration (ET) refers to the combined processes which move water from the Earth's surface (open water and ice surfaces, bare soil and vegetation) into the atmosphere.

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Farmington, New Mexico

Farmington (Navajo: Tóta') is a city in San Juan County in the U.S. state of New Mexico.

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Flagstaff, Arizona

Flagstaff is the county seat of Coconino County, Arizona, in the southwestern United States.

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Flaming Gorge Dam

Flaming Gorge Dam is a concrete thin-arch dam on the Green River, a major tributary of the Colorado River, in northern Utah in the United States. Glen Canyon Dam and Flaming Gorge Dam are Colorado River Storage Project and United States Bureau of Reclamation dams.

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Flaming Gorge Reservoir

Flaming Gorge Reservoir is the largest reservoir in Wyoming, on the Green River, impounded behind the Flaming Gorge Dam. Glen Canyon Dam and Flaming Gorge Reservoir are Colorado River Storage Project.

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Floyd Dominy

Floyd Elgin Dominy (December 24, 1909 Adams County, Nebraska – April 20, 2010 Boyce, Virginia) was appointed commissioner of the United States Bureau of Reclamation from May 1, 1959, to December 1, 1969, by Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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Fluvial terrace

Fluvial terraces are elongated terraces that flank the sides of floodplains and fluvial valleys all over the world.

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A footbridge (also a pedestrian bridge, pedestrian overpass, or pedestrian overcrossing) is a bridge designed solely for pedestrians.

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Francis turbine

The Francis turbine is a type of water turbine.

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Gatehouse (waterworks)

A gatehouse, gate house, outlet works or valve house for a dam is a structure housing sluice gates, valves, or pumps (in which case it is more accurately called a pumping station).

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Glen Canyon

Glen Canyon is a natural canyon carved by a length of the Colorado River, mostly in southeastern and south-central Utah, in the United States. Glen Canyon Dam and Glen Canyon are Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.

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Glen Canyon Dam Bridge

The Glen Canyon Bridge or Glen Canyon Dam Bridge is a steel arch bridge in Coconino County, Arizona, carrying U.S. Route 89 across the Colorado River. Glen Canyon Dam and Glen Canyon Dam Bridge are U.S. Route 89.

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Glen Canyon Institute

Glen Canyon Institute is a non-profit organization founded in 1996 dedicated to the restoration of the Colorado River through Glen Canyon, which is currently covered by Lake Powell, a reservoir created by Glen Canyon Dam.

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Glen Canyon National Recreation Area

Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (shortened to Glen Canyon NRA or GCNRA) is a national recreation area and conservation unit of the United States National Park Service that encompasses the area around Lake Powell and lower Cataract Canyon in Utah and Arizona, covering of mostly rugged high desert terrain.

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Grand Canyon

The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in Arizona, United States. Glen Canyon Dam and Grand Canyon are Landmarks in Arizona.

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Grand Canyon National Park

Grand Canyon National Park, located in northwestern Arizona, is the 15th site in the United States to have been named as a national park.

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Green River (Colorado River tributary)

The Green River, located in the western United States, is the chief tributary of the Colorado River.

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Gulf of California

The Gulf of California (Golfo de California), also known as the Sea of Cortés (Mar de Cortés) or Sea of Cortez, or less commonly as the Vermilion Sea (Mar Vermejo), is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean that separates the Baja California peninsula from the Mexican mainland.

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Gunnison River

The Gunnison River is located in western Colorado, United States and is one of the largest tributaries of the Colorado River.

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Halls Crossing, Utah

Halls Crossing is a census-designated place (CDP) on the western edge of San Juan County, Utah, United States.

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Helmut Abt

Helmut Arthur Abt (born 26 May 1925) is a German-born American astrophysicist, having worked at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Hite Crossing Bridge

The Hite Crossing Bridge is an arch bridge that carries Utah State Route 95 across the Colorado River northwest of Blanding, Utah, United States. Glen Canyon Dam and Hite Crossing Bridge are Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and lake Powell.

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Hite, Utah

Historic Hite is a flooded ghost town at the north end of Lake Powell along the Colorado River in western San Juan County, Utah, United States. Glen Canyon Dam and Hite, Utah are lake Powell.

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Hoover Dam

Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. Glen Canyon Dam and Hoover Dam are arch-gravity dams, dams in Arizona, dams on the Colorado River, hydroelectric power plants in Arizona and United States Bureau of Reclamation dams.

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Houseboat

A houseboat is a boat that has been designed or modified to be used primarily for regular dwelling.

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Humpback chub

The humpback chub (Gila cypha) is a federally protected fish that lived originally in fast waters of the Colorado River system in the United States.

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Hydraulic head

Hydraulic head or piezometric head is a specific measurement of liquid pressure above a vertical datum.

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Hydroelectricity

Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power).

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Imperial Valley

The Imperial Valley (Valle de Imperial or Valle Imperial) of Southern California lies in Imperial and Riverside counties, with an urban area centered on the city of El Centro.

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Internal Revenue Service

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the revenue service for the United States federal government, which is responsible for collecting U.S. federal taxes and administering the Internal Revenue Code, the main body of the federal statutory tax law.

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Irrigation

Irrigation (also referred to as watering of plants) is the practice of applying controlled amounts of water to land to help grow crops, landscape plants, and lawns.

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John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.

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John Wesley Powell

John Wesley Powell (March 24, 1834 – September 23, 1902) was an American geologist, U.S. Army soldier, explorer of the American West, professor at Illinois Wesleyan University, and director of major scientific and cultural institutions.

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Kanab, Utah

Kanab is a city in and the county seat of Kane County, Utah, United States.

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Katie Lee (singer)

Katie Lee (October 23, 1919 – November 1, 2017) was an American folk singer, actress, writer, photographer and environmental activist.

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Kilowatt-hour

A kilowatt-hour (unit symbol: kW⋅h or kW h; commonly written as kWh) is a non-SI unit of energy equal to 3.6 megajoules (MJ) in SI units which is the energy delivered by one kilowatt of power for one hour.

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Lady Bird Johnson

Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Johnson (December 22, 1912 – July 11, 2007) was the first lady of the United States from 1963 to 1969 as the wife of then president Lyndon B. Johnson.

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Lake Mead

Lake Mead is a reservoir formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River in the Southwestern United States. Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Mead are Landmarks in Arizona.

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Lake Powell

Lake Powell is a reservoir on the Colorado River in Utah and Arizona, United States. Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell are Colorado River Storage Project, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Landmarks in Arizona.

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Largemouth bass

The largemouth bass (Micropterus nigricans) is a carnivorous freshwater ray-finned fish in the Centrarchidae (sunfish) family, native to the eastern and central United States, southeastern Canada and northern Mexico.

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Lees Ferry

Lees Ferry (also known as Lee's Ferry, Lee Ferry, Little Colorado Station and Saints Ferry) is a site on the Colorado River in Coconino County, Arizona in the United States, about southwest of Page and south of the Utah–Arizona state line. Glen Canyon Dam and Lees Ferry are Landmarks in Arizona.

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Life (magazine)

Life is an American magazine published weekly from 1883 to 1972, as an intermittent "special" until 1978, a monthly from 1978 until 2000, and an online supplement since 2008.

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List of dams and reservoirs in the United States

The following is a partial list of dams and reservoirs in the United States.

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List of dams in the Colorado River system

This is a list of dams on the Colorado River system of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.

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List of largest reservoirs in the United States

This is a list of largest reservoirs in the United States, including all artificial lakes with a capacity greater than or equal to.

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List of states of Mexico

The states are the first-level administrative divisions of Mexico, which is officially named the United Mexican States.

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List of tallest dams

This is a list of the tallest dams in the world over in height.

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List of tallest dams in the United States

This is a list of the tallest dams in the United States.

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Little Colorado River

The Little Colorado River is a tributary of the Colorado River in the U.S. state of Arizona, providing the principal drainage from the Painted Desert region.

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Lower Colorado River Valley

The Lower Colorado River Valley (LCRV) is the river region of the lower Colorado River of the southwestern United States in North America that rises in the Rocky Mountains and has its outlet at the Colorado River Delta in the northern Gulf of California in northwestern Mexico, between the states of Baja California and Sonora.

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Marble Canyon Dam

The Marble Canyon Dam, also known as the Redwall Dam, was a proposed dam on the Colorado River in Arizona, United States. Glen Canyon Dam and Marble Canyon Dam are Colorado River Storage Project, dams in Arizona and dams on the Colorado River.

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Marc Reisner

Marc Reisner (September 14, 1948 – July 21, 2000) was an American environmentalist and writer best known for his book Cadillac Desert, a history of water management in the American West.

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Museum of Northern Arizona

The Museum of Northern Arizona is a museum in Flagstaff, Arizona, United States, established as a repository for Indigenous material and natural history specimens from the Colorado Plateau.

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National Park Service

The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government, within the U.S. Department of the Interior.

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Natural arch

A natural arch, natural bridge, or (less commonly) rock arch is a natural landform where an arch has formed with an opening underneath.

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Navajo Generating Station

Navajo Generating Station was a 2.25-gigawatt (2,250 MW), coal-fired power plant located on the Navajo Nation, near Page, Arizona, United States.

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Navajo Nation

The Navajo Nation (Naabeehó Bináhásdzo), also known as Navajoland, is an Indian reservation of Navajo people in the United States.

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Nevada

Nevada is a landlocked state in the Western region of the United States.

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New England

New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

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New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo MéxicoIn Peninsular Spanish, a spelling variant, Méjico, is also used alongside México. According to the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas by Royal Spanish Academy and Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, the spelling version with J is correct; however, the spelling with X is recommended, as it is the one that is used in Mexican Spanish.; Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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North American monsoon

The North American monsoon, variously known as the Southwest monsoon, the Mexican monsoon, the New Mexican monsoon, or the Arizona monsoon is a term for a pattern of pronounced increase in thunderstorms and rainfall over large areas of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.

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Pacific Northwest

The Pacific Northwest (PNW), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in Western North America bounded by its coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains to the east.

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Page, Arizona

Page is a city in Coconino County, Arizona, United States, near the Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell.

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Paria River

The Paria River is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately long, in southern Utah and northern Arizona in the United States.

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Peaking power plant

Peaking power plants, also known as peaker plants, and occasionally just "peakers", are power plants that generally run only when there is a high demand, known as peak demand, for electricity.

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Penstock

A penstock is a sluice or gate or intake structure that controls water flow, or an enclosed pipe that delivers water to hydro turbines and sewerage systems.

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Personal watercraft

A personal watercraft (PWC), also called water scooter, is a primarily recreational watercraft that is designed to hold only a small number of occupants, who sit or stand on top of the craft, not within the craft as in a boat.

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Phoenix Cement Company

The Phoenix Cement Company, headquartered in Phoenix, operates a cement plant in Clarkdale in the U.S. state of Arizona.

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Phoenix, Arizona

Phoenix is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arizona, with 1,608,139 residents as of 2020.

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Poa pratensis

Poa pratensis, commonly known as Kentucky bluegrass (or blue grass), smooth meadow-grass, or common meadow-grass, is a perennial species of grass native to practically all of Europe, North Asia and the mountains of Algeria and Morocco.

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Powell Geographic Expedition of 1869

The Powell Geographic Expedition of 1869, led by American naturalist John Wesley Powell, was the first thorough cartographic and scientific investigation of long segments of the Green and Colorado rivers in the southwestern United States, including the first recorded passage of white men through the entirety of the Grand Canyon.

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Quagga mussel

The quagga mussel (Dreissena rostriformis, also known as Dreissena bugensis or Dreissena rostriformis bugensis) is a species (or subspecies) of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Dreissenidae.

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Rafting

Rafting and whitewater rafting are recreational outdoor activities which use an inflatable raft to navigate a river or other body of water.

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Rainbow Bridge National Monument

Rainbow Bridge is a natural arch in southern Utah, United States.

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Rainbow trout

The rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) is a species of trout native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in North America and Asia.

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Rapids

Rapids are sections of a river where the river bed has a relatively steep gradient, causing an increase in water velocity and turbulence.

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Renewable energy

Renewable energy (or green energy) is energy from renewable natural resources that are replenished on a human timescale.

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Reservoir

A reservoir is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation.

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Riparian zone

A riparian zone or riparian area is the interface between land and a river or stream.

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Rockslide

A rockslide is a type of landslide caused by rock failure in which part of the bedding plane of failure passes through compacted rock and material collapses en masse and not in individual blocks.

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Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range and the largest mountain system in North America.

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Salton Sea

The Salton Sea is a shallow, landlocked, highly saline endorheic lake in Riverside and Imperial counties at the southern end of the U.S. state of California.

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San Juan River (Colorado River tributary)

The San Juan River is a major tributary of the Colorado River in the Southwestern United States, providing the chief drainage for the Four Corners region of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona.

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Sediment

Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice or by the force of gravity acting on the particles.

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September 11 attacks

The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001.

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Shoal

In oceanography, geomorphology, and geoscience, a shoal is a natural submerged ridge, bank, or bar that consists of, or is covered by, sand or other unconsolidated material, and rises from the bed of a body of water close to the surface or above it, which poses a danger to navigation.

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Sierra Club

The Sierra Club is an American environmental organization with chapters in all 50 U.S. states, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico.

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Sierra Club Books

Sierra Club Books was the publishing division, for both adults and children, of the Sierra Club, founded in by then club President David Brower.

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Silt

Silt is granular material of a size between sand and clay and composed mostly of broken grains of quartz.

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Sluice

A sluice is a water channel containing a sluice gate, a type of lock to manage the water flow and water level.

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Smallmouth bass

The smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) is a species of freshwater fish in the sunfish family (Centrarchidae) of the order Perciformes.

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Snowpack

Snowpack is an accumulation of snow that compresses with time and melts seasonally, often at high elevation or high latitude.

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Sonora

Sonora, officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora (Free and Sovereign State of Sonora), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico.

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Southwestern North American megadrought

The southwestern North American megadrought is an ongoing megadrought in the southwestern region of North America that began in 2000.

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Southwestern United States

The Southwestern United States, also known as the American Southwest or simply the Southwest, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States that includes Arizona and New Mexico, along with adjacent portions of California, Colorado, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah.

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Spall

Spall are fragments of a material that are broken off a larger solid body.

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Spillway

A spillway is a structure used to provide the controlled release of water downstream from a dam or levee, typically into the riverbed of the dammed river itself.

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Stewart Udall

Stewart Lee Udall (January 31, 1920 – March 20, 2010) was an American politician and later, a federal government official who belonged to the Democratic Party.

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Strike action

Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike and industrial action in British English, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.

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Striped bass

The striped bass (Morone saxatilis), also called the Atlantic striped bass, striper, linesider, rock, or rockfish, is an anadromous perciform fish of the family Moronidae found primarily along the Atlantic coast of North America.

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Substation

A substation is a part of an electrical generation, transmission, and distribution system.

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The Monkey Wrench Gang

The Monkey Wrench Gang is a novel written by American author Edward Abbey (1927–1989), published in 1975.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Thermal mass

In building design, thermal mass is a property of the matter of a building that requires a flow of heat in order for it to change temperature.

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Trailer park

A trailer park, caravan park, mobile home park, mobile home community or manufactured home community is a temporary or permanent area for mobile homes and travel trailers.

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Treaty relating to the utilization of waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and of the Rio Grande

The Treaty relating to the utilization of waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and of the Rio Grande (also known as Treaty on Utilization of Waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and of the Rio Grande or 1944 Water Treaty) is a cooperative water agreement between the United States of America and Mexico defining allocation of Rio Grande water to the U.S.

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Trinity River (California)

The Trinity River (Yurok: Hoopa or Hupa; Hupa: hun') is a major river in northwestern California in the United States and is the principal tributary of the Klamath River.

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Tucson, Arizona

Tucson (Cuk Ṣon; Tucsón) is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States, and is home to the University of Arizona.

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U.S. Route 89

U.S. Route 89 (US 89) is a north–south United States Numbered Highway with two sections, and one former section.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Army Corps of Engineers

The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is the military engineering branch of the United States Army.

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United States Bureau of Reclamation

The Bureau of Reclamation, formerly the United States Reclamation Service, is a federal agency under the U.S. Department of the Interior, which oversees water resource management, specifically as it applies to the oversight and operation of the diversion, delivery, and storage projects that it has built throughout the western United States for irrigation, water supply, and attendant hydroelectric power generation.

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United States Department of the Interior

The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the management and conservation of most federal lands and natural resources.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.

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University of Nevada, Reno

The University of Nevada, Reno (Nevada, the University of Nevada, or UNR) is a public land-grant research university in Reno, Nevada.

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University of Utah

The University of Utah (the U, U of U, or simply Utah) is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Utah

Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Wahweap Creek

Wahweap Creek is a long intermittent stream in southern Utah in the United States, and is a tributary of the Colorado River.

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Wallace Stegner

Wallace Earle Stegner (February 18, 1909 – April 13, 1993) was an American novelist, writer, environmentalist, and historian.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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Water skiing

Water skiing (also waterskiing or water-skiing) is a surface water sport in which an individual is pulled behind a boat or a cable ski installation over a body of water, skimming the surface on two skis or one ski.

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Water year

A water year (also called hydrological year, discharge year or flow year) is a term commonly used in hydrology to describe a time period of 12 months for which precipitation totals are measured.

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Watt

The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3.

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Western Area Power Administration

As one of the four power marketing administrations within the U.S. Department of Energy, the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA)'s role is to market wholesale hydropower generated at 57 hydroelectric federal dams operated by the Bureau of Reclamation, United States Army Corps of Engineers and the International Boundary and Water Commission.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Canyon_Dam

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