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Glen Canyon Dam is a dam on the Colorado River at Page, Arizona, USA, operated by the United States Bureau of Reclamation. The purpose of the dam is to provide water storage for the arid southwestern United States, and to generate electricity for the region\'s growing population. Damming the river flooded Glen Canyon and created a large reservoir called Lake Powell. Just downstream from the dam is an arch bridge that carries U.S. Route 89. Also nearby is the 2280 megawatt, coal-fired Navajo Generating Station.

The dam is part of the Colorado River Storage Project for the Upper Colorado Basin. It is located about 4.5miles (7.2km) south of the border between Utah and Arizona. According to the Bureau of Reclamation, \"The project furnishes the long-time regulatory storage needed to permit States in the upper basin to meet their flow obligation at Lees Ferry, Arizona, (as defined in the Colorado River Compact) and still use their apportioned water.\"

Construction of the dam began in 1956 by the industrial conglomerate, Merritt-Chapman & Scott. Although the dam was not dedicated until 1966, it was able to begin blocking the flow of the river in 1963.

The Sierra Club and other Environmental organizations opposed the original plan for damming the Colorado River, including the construction farther upstream of the Echo Park Dam, which would have inundated part of Dinosaur National Monument. When the plan was modified, however, the Sierra Club dropped its objection to the Glen Canyon Dam. Its then Executive Director, David Brower, later called this decision one of the biggest mistakes of his career:

\"Glen Canyon died, and I was partly responsible for its needless death. Neither you nor I, nor anyone else, knew it well enough to insist that at all costs it should endure. When we began to find out, it was too late.\" (From the 1963 Sierra Club book, The Place No One Knew, edited by Brower)

In subsequent years the dam has continued to inspire deeply felt opposition. Eco-novelist and essayist Edward Abbey railed against the dam, and considered Glen Canyon the \"living heart\" of the Colorado River. In his 1975 novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang, the protagonists view the dam as an abomination, and fantasize about blowing it up. On March 21, 1981, Abbey was among the onlookers as a small group of Earth First! activists unfurled a 300-foot (91m)-long, tapered sheet of black plastic from the top of the dam, making it look as though a gigantic crack had opened in the concrete.

Since 1996, the Sierra Club has called for increasing the release of water, so that a more natural flow of the river can be restored and Lake Powell can be gradually drained.

Thirty-one years after the dam\'s completion, Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, who originally supported the project, stated in an interview that he would be happier without the lake and expressed regret for voting in favor of its construction.

Despite opposition from many Environmental groups, the dam, Lake Powell, and the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area remain popular tourist destinations. Continued population growth in the western and southwestern United States places more demands on the system of dams and reservoirs on the Colorado River for water, power, and recreational purposes, which are important to the infrastructures and economies of the western United States.

High volume flows are now periodically released to assist in re-arrangement of river beaches in the canyon, deemed necessary to prevent overgrowth of exotic plant species such as tamarisk and balance the needs of the human population with that of the Environment.

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