NARRATIVE BY ON THE COLORADO ABOUT THE DYSFUNCTION OF GLEN CANYON DAM

There is no capacity within the Glen Canyon Adaptive Management Program to be proactive about implementing a successful long-term management plan. This program, now approaching an age of 30-years and spending more than $30,000 a day, has produced what is best described and a gross distortion of Nature.

With each passing decade, the degradation of Lake Powell and of the river corridor behind Glen Canyon Dam, progressively and noticeably decays. This condition is especially noticeable to the people who watched the dam being built, who watched the reservoir fill, and who watched the river corridor of the Grand Canyon abruptly change into a water conveyance system between the two largest reservoirs in the United States.

When you review the literature for the original EIS of 2016 and for the SEIS of 2024, you will notice that the alternatives are essentially the same. The scope just isn't comprehensive, nor imaginative, and it still remains ripe for continuing litigation.

GLEN CANYON DAM LITIGATION

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Additional Information

• Final Glen Canyon Dam SEIS Letter
• Summary Judgement; Motion and Memo
• Statement of Facts
• Expert Witness; James Lawrence Powell

FEBRUARY, 2024 - DRAFT SEIS RELEASED FOR NEW OPERATIONS AT GLEN CANYON DAM

• CLICK HERE to be directed to the home page for this SEIS by Reclamation.
• CLICK HERE to review the alternatives that are essentially all the same.

PUBLIC COMMENTS

• Living Rivers et al
• Center for Biological Diversity et al

• Public comments: Small Mouth Bass Environmental Assessment of March 2023
• A chronology: Long-term Experimental Management Plan (LTEMP) for Glen Canyon Dam Operations

Administrative Record of Living Rivers and allies:

• January 18, 2002 - Comments on Adaptive Management Working Group and proposed Strategic Plan
• September 25, 2002 - Requesting expanded public participation for review of Glen Canyon Dam experimental flows
• October 30, 2002 - Comments on Glen Canyon Dam experimental flows
• August 11, 2003 - Proposed modification to mechanical removal of non-native fish from the Colorado River in Grand Canyon
• August 13, 2003 - Concerns regarding Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program (AMP).
• March 3, 2004 - Letter to AMP calling for SEIS on Glen Canyon Dam
• March 17, 2004 - Letter of extension for scoping period of temperature control device (TCD).
• April 2, 2004 - EIS letter for Temperature Control Device to Reclamation
• August 9, 2004 - Demanding action to correct failing federal program to recover Grand Canyon native fish.
• November 16, 2004 - Comments for Supplemental EA for experimental flows in Grand Canyon
• November 8, 2005 - 60-day Notice
• February 28, 2007 - Letter to Secretary Kempthorne about Long-term Experimental Plan (LTEP) EIS
• February 22, 2008 - Comments on EA for operations at Glen Canyon Dam 2008-2012
• January 12, 2012 - Scoping for LTEMP
• April 2, 2012 - Letter to Secretary Salazar (LTEMP)
• May 27, 2012 - Letter to Secretary Salazar (LTEMP)
• May 9, 2016 - Comments for LTEMP DEIS
• October 10, 2019 - Complaint filed in Federal District Court for an SEIS