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As one of the world’s largest dams, Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River in Reclamation’s Columbia–Pacific Northwest Region presents unique challenges for staff tasked with its operations and maintenance. Power Office Emergency Management Coordinator Jenna Herreman and Western Colorado Area Off ... (Read More →)

WALNUT GROVE, Calif. - Standing on the levee road, surrounded by trees and an inert slough, it’s hard to get a read on distance or orientation. But that’s the Delta – a mosaic of water, land and sky that harkens to an undiscovered part of California that defies time or categ ... (Read More →)

Chris Dodge, a veteran biologist working for the Bureau of Reclamation, was caught by surprise more than once while conducting recent surveys of rare mammals on the lower Colorado River. 

Dodge has worked for the Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program for 22 years. The ... (Read More →)

After flowing through the Imperial Dam into the All-American and Gila Gravity Main canals, Colorado River water irrigates more than 500,000 acres of farmland and serves homes and businesses in southern Arizona and California’s Imperial and Coachella valleys.  

To keep that water f ... (Read More →)

By: Robert Rampton

Standing in its parking spot on the far western side of the top of the dam, the Flaming Gorge gantry crane quietly waits for its next task. Looking small by comparison to the overall size of the dam, the gantry crane is, none the less, an important and esse ... (Read More →)

Late this spring, more than 2,400 endangered fish made a 700-mile journey that ended in a lagoon off the Colorado River in Laughlin, Nevada. It only took them 11 hours.

Instead of navigating rapids and avoiding predators, these rare bonytail made the trip in the temperature-controlled comfo ... (Read More →)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - It’s fall on the lower American River, and that means more habitat restoration work to benefit fall-run Chinook salmon and steelhead trout is coming to fruition.

This year, the site is River Bend, just a few miles from the confluence of the American and ... (Read More →)

Sixty years ago, Glen Canyon Dam began its journey as a cornerstone of hydropower in the Southwestern United States. Authorized by the Eisenhower administration and the Colorado River Storage Project, construction of Glen Canyon Dam commenced Oct. 1, 1956. The dam was completed ... (Read More →)

ARIZONA – On the surface, stocking more of the invasive fish you are trying to remove might seem counterintuitive, but one innovative restoration project in Arizona is hopeful they can have success using that approach.   

The addition of $350,000 from the Bureau of Reclamation’s ... (Read More →)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The Bureau of Reclamation today released “Shasta and the Long-Term Operation Plan for the Central Valley Project: Achieving durability and equanimity for multiple needs,” ... (Read More →)