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- noun a large dam built in 1964 on the Colorado River in Arizona
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The Glen Canyon Dam is a dam on the Colorado River at Page, Arizona,
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The Glen Canyon Dam is a dam on the Colorado River at Page, Arizona,
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Hoover Dam would remain a prodigious earthquake producer well into the 1960s, when the construction of Glen Canyon Dam and the impoundment of Lake Powell three hundred miles upstream allowed the Reclamation Bureau to better moderate flows into and out of Lake Mead.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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As head of the Bureau of Reclamation from 1959 to 1969, Mr. Dominy oversaw the completion of the massive Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River, as well as similar projects that irrigated crops and lawns and provided electricity for farms, houses and factories.
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The Reclamation Bureau would not build a thin arch dam of significant height until twenty-five years later, when it would raise the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado three hundred miles upstream of Black Canyon.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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The theory that cavitation was the culprit gained credence from examination of the spillways at Glen Canyon Dam, which had also run at maximum capacity during the summer flood.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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With a cattleman's regard for water, Floyd Dominy ran some of the federal Bureau of Reclamation's biggest dam projects, including the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River.
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With a cattleman's regard for water, Floyd Dominy ran some of the federal Bureau of Reclamation's biggest dam projects, including the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River.
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For example, the city of Albuquerque couldn't depend on its 110,000 acre feet of water unless it had the storage capacity in Glen Canyon Dam.
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As head of the Bureau of Reclamation from 1959 to 1969, Mr. Dominy oversaw the completion of the massive Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River, as well as similar projects that irrigated crops and lawns and provided electricity for farms, houses and factories.
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