{"id":86093,"date":"2024-09-13T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/?p=86093"},"modified":"2024-09-12T20:40:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T00:40:20","slug":"lake-powell-glen-canyon-dam-plumbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/13092024\/lake-powell-glen-canyon-dam-plumbing\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Powell Plumbing Will Be Repaired, but Some Say Glen Canyon Dam Needs a Long-Term Fix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Federal water managers will repair a set of little-used pipes within Glen Canyon Dam after discovering damage<\/a> earlier this year. The tubes, called river outlet works, have been a focus for Colorado River watchers in recent years. If Lake Powell falls much lower, they could be the only way to pass water from the nation\u2019s second-largest reservoir to the 25 million people downstream of the dam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bureau of Reclamation will use $8.9 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to apply a new lining to all four pipes, which were originally coated more than 60 years ago. Conservation groups, however, say Reclamation should turn its attention and finances to bigger, longer-term fixes<\/a> for the dam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDuct tape and baling wire won’t work in the long run,\u201d said Kyle Roerink, executive director of the nonprofit Great Basin Water Network. \u201cThese short-term efforts are myopic in the grand scheme of things.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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