All developed boat ramps at the Blue Mesa Reservoir were limited, effective immediately, to hand-launching of non-trailered ...

"In effect, they're building a giant bathtub, even though there's likely no water to ever fill it." ...

Officials are warning residents and visitors in Gunnison, Colorado, about toxic algae detected in the state's largest ...

Climate change will almost certainly feature prominently in any multi-state litigation over the Colorado River. A court case ...

Federal workers have taken the first steps in a $32 million maintenance of the Blue Mesa Dam, the largest of three dams that were built in the 1960s to create Colorado's biggest reservoir. It's the ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on July 7, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On July 7, 1930, construction began on Boulder Dam.

Colorado (KCNC) — Just weeks before completion of construction, Northern Water has confirmed uranium has been discovered at the site of the Chimney Hollow Reservoir and Dam. The project, which is ...

Federal officials said Thursday they will not release cool water this year from one of the Colorado River's major reservoirs, which would have protected a threatened native fish downstream but put ...

Beavers and the dams they build promote sediment deposition and modify channel and floodplain morphology and physical complexity. Beaver activities may result in increased watershed-scale water and ...