Lake Powell hits lowest summer level ever, raising risk of 'dead pool'

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2. This would be a good time to tear the dam down.

It was a bad idea from the very start.

We've really got to stop pretending the Colorado River is ever going to be what it once was. If Glen Canyon Dam was removed any loss of power would be made up for by increased power production at Hoover Dam, assuming there's enough water for that.

The loss of reliable electric power from both of these dams has already been accounted for in the operation of Western power grids. When, inevitably, both dams fall below "minimum power pool" any increases in the price of electricity caused by that will be negligible.

I noted in a previous post that in recent years the Palo Verde nuclear plant is producing about ten times more electricity than Hoover Dam.

If future generations loose the industrial capacity to remove or maintain these dams the consequences will be catastrophic when these dams inevitably fail.

Unfortunately our society discounts entirely any death, destruction, or suffering we inflict on future generations. A large portion of our population doesn't even care about the children of today's world.