Lake Powell and the Colorado River are facing historically low water levels, threatening the supply for millions of people as ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on July 7, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On July 7, 1930, construction began on Boulder Dam.

Federal workers have taken the first steps in a $32 million maintenance of the Blue Mesa Dam, the largest of three dams that were built in the 1960s to create Colorado's biggest reservoir. It's the ...

Gross Dam in Boulder County, Colorado, is undergoing a $565 million expansion, with the dam's height being raised to nearly triple the Gross Reservoir's capacity from 42,000 acre-ft. to 119,000 ...

After decades of planning and years of construction, Northern Colorado's Chimney Hollow Dam is nearly complete. Construction crews topped off the 350-foot-tall dam recently and are preparing to pave a ...

Colorado (KCNC) — Just weeks before completion of construction, Northern Water has confirmed uranium has been discovered at the site of the Chimney Hollow Reservoir and Dam. The project, which is ...

Hoover Dam rises above the Colorado River near Boulder City, shaping Lake Mead and a landscape of concrete, rock and water that still defines this desert town. Schwarzweiss-Reportagebild vom ...

Beavers and the dams they build promote sediment deposition and modify channel and floodplain morphology and physical complexity. Beaver activities may result in increased watershed-scale water and ...

Two dozen aging dams in Colorado were in unsatisfactory condition and are located in places where their failure would likely kill at least one person, according to an Associated Press investigation ...

Colorado Springs Utilities is planning to replace the Penrose Reservoir with a pair of 60-foot-tall, 8.8-million-gallon tanks ...

Yes, (the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment) did extend the comment period for the Dredge and Fill ...

On July 7, 1930, construction began on Boulder Dam. Today it is known as Hoover Dam. The dam, which is responsible for the creation of Lake Mead, is the best known and largest of the dams on the ...