At Lake Powell, Engineering Is Outpacing Colorado River Policy
February 10, 2026 —
Bryan Gottlieb - Engineering News-RecordArizona’s Lake Powell is in trouble. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation modeling shows the reservoir dropped roughly 36 ft between December 2024 and December 2025, a decline that is no longer a warning but an operating condition engineers are designing around.
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