M in funds is now available for Hoover Dam modernization near Las Vegas, Gov. Lombardo says, improving reliability as Lake ...

The Bureau of Reclamation is releasing $52 million to fund upgrades and repairs at the Hoover Dam, officials announced today.

Lower water levels at Lake Mead are likely to lead to higher prices for electricity from Hoover Dam — prices high enough to make the power unaffordable to at least some of the dam's customers, a state ...

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Federal water managers are putting the nation’s largest dam in a precarious position as they try to balance out the Colorado River system in a year of record low snowpack. Toward the bottom of the ...

Glen Canyon Dam, completed in 1963, was not designed to be operated at extremely low water levels in Lake Powell. The decline of Lake Powell is putting hydropower generation and downstream water ...

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For generations, the presence of Hoover Dam and its massive power plant routinely translated into cheap electricity for cities, farmers, irrigation districts and other major electrical energy users in ...

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