A harrowing, in-depth account of how the Bureau of Reclamation responded to the Colorado River’s wrathful 1982 summer runoff that nearly broke the Glen Canyon Dam. (To read the full text, click on the “View a PDF from the original” link below, or download a PDF of the entire issue: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.23/download-entire-issue.)
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline How Lake Powell almost broke free of Glen Canyon Dam.
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