The Bureau of Reclamation opens bids for the construction of Boulder (Hoover) Dam and Power Plant. The contract is awarded to Six Companies, a construction and engineering firm made up of some of ...

The new report from nonprofit group Tell The Dam Truth estimates the full lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by Glen Canyon and Hoover dams are equal to the average yearly emissions from ...

If water levels seemed lower to visitors last month on Lake Havasu, they weren’t wrong. But federal officials say more water ...

High Scalers drill into the canyon wall 500 feet above the Colorado River in Black Canyon at the Hoover Dam site. April 1, 1932. Bureau of Reclamation. Even under the best of conditions ...

The Hoover Dam was created with a goal in mind ... It’s a little bit like Legos According to the US Bureau of Reclamation, the dam was made of interlocking concrete blocks—basically giant ...

If water levels seemed lower to visitors last month on Lake Havasu, they weren’t wrong. But federal officials say more water will be released into the lake as the season ...

Father and son died on the same day, 14 years apart while working on Hoover ... Dam is 96, but historians agree the actual figure is almost certainly higher. A project history by the U.S. Bureau ...

Guides from the Bureau of Reclamation will take you through the ... who do not want to devote an entire day to seeing the Hoover Dam. Take your pick between an 8 a.m. or 1 p.m. departure.

The federal Bureau of Reclamation released a snapshot of five ... and it did — in a 54-page report that was announced not at Hoover Dam, but in an overlooked news release on the afternoon ...

consider timing your visit between 9 and 10:30 a.m. or between 2:30 and 3:45 p.m. Parking costs $10. To learn more about the dam, visit the Hoover Dam page on the Bureau of Reclamation website.

Reclamation finally drops more details about how it might handle Colorado River water shortages after 2026, but few people ...