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ADAPTIVE MANAGMENT: GLEN CANYON DAM OPERATIONS

• 1999 - Review: Glen Canyon Dam adaptive management program. National Academy of Sciences.
• 2005 - SCORE Report. USGS.
• 2010 - A Cautionary Tale. Susskind.

BUREAU OF RECLAMATION

• 1922 - The Fall Report: Problems of Imperial Valley and Vicinity.
• 1929 - Weymouth Report. Technical record of Hoover Dam. Bureau of Reclamation.
• 1933 - The Construction of Hoover Dam: Investigation, Design & Progress.
• 1936 - Construction of Boulder (Hoover) Dam. (ocr)
• 1939 - Boulder Canyon Project Final Reports Part V: Technical Investigations.
• 1946 - A national menace becomes a natural resource
• 1950 - CRSP and Participating Projects
• 1961 - Design features of Glen Canyon Dam
• 1963 - Pacific Southwest Water Plan
• 1964 - Pacific Southwest Water Plan
• 1965 - Lake Powell: Jewel of the Colorado.
• 1970 - Glen Canyon Dam technical record of design and construction. (searchable doc); Chronology; Intro; Geology; Foundation; Dam; Spillways; River Outlets; Penstocks; Powerplant; Switchyard; Visitor Center; Consruction, Appendix.
• 1977 - Report of Western Energy Expansion Study
• 1998 - Dam failure inundation study & Inundation Maps.
• 2002 - Evolution of the Hoover Dam Inflow Design Flood: A Study in Changing Methodologies

FLOODS

• 1944 - Water Supply Paper 918. USGS; Dickinson.
• 1948 - Floods in Colorado. USGS; Follansbee.
• 1946 - Cloudburst floods in Utah. Woolley. US Geological Survey.
• 1994 - Paleofloods in Grand Canyon. O'Conner and Baker.
• 1998 - Dam failure inundation study & Inundation Maps. Bureau of Reclamation.
• 2001 - Floods and riparian vegetation on the San Juan River. (Poster). Webb et al. US Geological Survey.
• 2008 - Evolution of Hoover Dam Inflow Design and Flood Study. (2002 version). Swain.
• 2009 - The Big Washout: The 1862 Flood in Santa Clara. Compton.
• 2010 - Flooding in the Dolores River Basin, Colorado and Utah: Insights from Paleofloods, Geochronology and Hydroclimatic Analysis. Cline.
• 2013 - Atmospheric Rivers. Dettinger & Ingram.
• 2014 - A 2000 Year Record of Magnitude and Frequencies of Largest Upper Colorado River Floods near Moab, Utah. Greenbaum et al.

Flood Graphics

• Minimum Required Colorado River System Storage Space 
• Minimum Flood Control Releases at Hoover Dam
• Notable Floods above Hoover Dam
• Contents of major dams (including dead pool capacity) above Hoover
• High Water Line (80 feet) at Boulder Canyon before Hoover Dam construction
• Dam Safety Reports: Glen Canyon, Fontenelle and Navajo dams. ICOLD.
• 1889 - Schematic of Red Rock Bridge (Topock, AZ) indicating high water line of the 1857 and 1884 floods;  ENLARGED
• 1941 - Spillway damage at Hoover Dam
• 1976 - Teton Dam Failure
• 1983 - Color photo of Glen Canyon Dam spillway failure from cavitation
• 1983 - Plywood extensions on spillway gate at Glen Canyon Dam
• 1983 - Flooding in the lower Colorado River near Blythe
• 1983 - Schematic of water releases of spillway emergency at Glen Canyon Dam.

HYDROLOGY

• 1959 - Probability Analysis Applied to a Water-Supply Problem. Leopold.
• 1965 - Water Supplies of the Colorado River. Tipton. Upper Colorado River Commission. (notes on report).
• 1976 - Long-term surface-water supply and streamflow trends in the upper Colorado River basin. Stockton and Jacoby. National Science Foundation.
• 1977 - Climate, Climate Change, and Water Supply
• 1983 - Effects of Carbon-Induced Climatic Change on Water Supplies in the Western USA. Revelle and Wagoneer.
• 1993 - The Colorado River Basin and Climatic Change: The Sensitivity of Streamflow and Water Supply to Variations in Temperature and Precipitation. Nash and Gleick. Environmental Protection Agency.

TESTIMONY

• 1954 - Testimony of Northcutt Ely on controversy of authorizing Glen Canyon Dam
• 1965 - Congressional testimony in August & September; (searchable)
• 1965 - Statement of attorney Northcutt Ely regarding Arizona v California
• 1966 - Congressional hearings in May
• 1967 - Congressional hearings in March; (searchable).
• 1967 - Congressional testimony of Sierra Club (David Brower, Hugh Nash, Jeffrey Ingram) and Stephen Jett of the Navajo Nation.
• 1968 - Congressional hearing in January & February, Part2

• 1962 - The Rotenone Project (native fish genocide). Halverson.
• 1979 - Colorado River Basin Problems. GAO.
• 2000 - Undamming Glen Canyon: Lunacy, Rationality, or Prophecy? Miller. (cache)
• 2008 - Water Scarcity in the Colorado River basin. GAO. 

SEDIMENT

1960 - Comprehensive study of Lake Mead sediment and hydrology. US Geological Survey and Bureau of Reclamation.

• Table of Contents
• a. The Lake Mead Problem
• b. Organization of the Work & Equipment
• c. Geologic Setting of Lake Mead
• d. Drainage Basin Tributary to Lake Mead
• e. Precise Leveling
• f. Interpretation of the Precise Leveling
• g. Survey of the Lake
• h. Survey of Lower Granite Gorge
• i. Reservoir Storage
• j. Water Budget Mead Survey
• k. Character of the Flowing Water
• l. Chemistry of the Water
• m. Circulation & Evaporation
• n. Character of the Accumulated Sediment
• o. Bacteriology & BioChemistry of the Sediments
• p. Amount of Sediment
• q. Turbidity Currents
• r. Erosion of Reservoir
• s. Sedimentation in Relation to Reservoir Utilization
• t. Life of the Reservoir
• u. The Sediment Problem in Reservoirs
• v. Index
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• 1987 - Lake Powell sediment survey. Bureau of Reclamation.
• 1990 - Colorado River Sediment. Andrews.
• 1991 - Sediment Transport in the Colorado River Basin. National Research Council.