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Hidden Passage the Journal of Glen Canyon Institute Issue XIV, Winter 2007 65391 Nwsltr4.Qxd 12/19/06 10:29 AM Page 2 65391_Nwsltr4.qxd 12/19/06 10:29 AM Page 1 Hidden Passage the journal of glen canyon institute Issue XIV, Winter 2007 65391_Nwsltr4.qxd 12/19/06 10:29 AM Page 2 The Times They Are a’Changin’ Glen Canyon Institute by Richard Ingebretsen President I n 1995, when we first began working to restore Glen Canyon, we were called Richard Ingebretsen “nuts” by water managers, “crazy” by Utah’s Senator Orrin Hatch and “insane” by water skiers, but as Bob Dylan wrote, “The Times, They Are a Changin’.” Now, our Board of Trustees proposals are taken seriously — even by the Bureau of Reclamation, which last Mikhail Davis year took a page from our script in announcing that it would no longer seek to Ed Dobson completely re-fill Lake Powell reservoir, but instead would store more water down- Wade Graham stream in Lake Mead. Margaret Hoffman So what has brought about this change? Nancy Jacques The main issue, of course, is water, or more importantly, the lack thereof. The Rick Ridder huge growth of the number of people in the West has strained the water system to Lea Rudee almost failure. California has “run out” of their share of Colorado River water, yet Dave Wegner Los Angeles is expected to grow by millions over the next two decades. Las Vegas is growing at the rate of 12,000 people each month and will overgrow its share of water in 2007. And, not to leave Arizona out of the equation, Phoenix is expected Development Director to double its size within 15 years. If that is not enough, scientists are expecting the Amy Collins effects of global warming to reduce the snowpack in the Rocky Mountains by 30 percent within the next 25 years. The Colorado River gets 90 percent of its water Advisory Committee from snowmelt. It is clear that the plumbing system that water managers have Dan Beard built is going dry. Steve Black Furthermore, each day tens of thousands of tons of sediment are deposited Philmer Bluehouse into Lake Powell. Have water managers considered the consequences of this Ryan Brown Niklas Christensen alarming fact? Lake Mead and Lake Powell are no more than half full and drop- Agustin Garza ping rapidly. Does it make sense to have two partly-full reservoirs in the high Michael Kellett desert that each evaporate enough water every year to supply Los Angeles? The Peter Lavigne priceless species of the Grand Canyon are going extinct. Is that the legacy that Katie Lee we want to leave our children? Daniel McCool Because of all of this, forward-thinking organizations such as Glen Canyon Francis McDermott Institute have moved to center stage in the debate. Lake Powell, which has flooded Bruce Mouro Glen Canyon since the mid-1960s, has dropped to its lowest level in 40 years, and Tom Myers for the first time in decades, more than 40 miles of the mainstem of Glen Canyon’s Page Stegner Flake Wells landscape have been exposed, along with hundreds of miles of the Glen’s 125 Bill Wolverton major side canyons. Nothing short of millennial-type floods can possibly fill Lake Powell again. Even if these occur, the water will be drawn down by users in short order. So, whole sections of Glen Canyon are now out of water, in all likelihood 1520 Sunnydale Lane permanently, and will restore. Salt Lake City, Utah 84108 In order for the West to survive and grow we can not rely on archaic laws and tel (801) 363-4450 agreements that were written over a half a century ago. We need to have new agree- fax (801)363-4451 ments that make sense in a rapidly-changing world. We need bright, innovative [email protected] and creative minds to solve the problems of western water. We can’t be afraid of www.glencanyon.org change, but must embrace it, guide it and move forward boldly. We must preserve the earth’s species and beautiful places and moreover, must work to reverse the Hidden Passage mistakes of the past when we can in order to preserve the future. Issue XIV Winter 2007 Water managers must listen to voices raised in defense of our landscapes and resources. They must not fear us, but rather take our message to heart. We are not Editor anti-growth, nor are we against using the nation’s natural endowment. Instead we Wade Graham promote sane growth and better use of these scarce resources. We all have the [email protected] opportunity and obligation to help affect that change so that water is delivered in a much more environmentally sound way and that Glen Canyon and the Grand Canyon can be allowed to restore and sustain themselves. Cover: recently-exposed narrows of Cascade Canyon once covered by 20 feet of page 2 sediment. Photo by Jim Kay — jameskay.com 65391_Nwsltr4.qxd 12/19/06 10:29 AM Page 3 An Dubious Milestone: The Colorado River Storage Project Act Turns Fifty by Dave Wegner O n Thursday, October 19th the Bureau of Reclamation cele- brated the 50-year anniversary of the Colorado River Storage Project Act and the first construction activities at Glen Canyon Dam. Under heavy security and with no members of the public present, the bureau and its parent agency, the Department of the Interior, toasted and congratulated them- selves on top of the dam. With the reser- voir behind the dam at 49% of capacity and the knowledge that the reservoir will continue The development of the CRSP was users of Colorado River water. to drop in elevation, one has to wonder based on several assumptions that are Wouldn’t it be nice if the Department what the future holds for the CRSP. now being tested and being proven of the Interior used the anniversary as The CRSP was the vehicle by which incorrect for the future: (1) snowmelt an opportunity to step up and do the the plumbing system of the Colorado would be the primary source of water; right thing by thinking about the next River was developed using taxpayer (2) the dams would store water behind 50 years of CRSP through a compre- money. The intent of the Act was to cap- them during the runoff and slowly hensive, basin-wide Environmental ture water, primarily for irrigation use release it during the irrigation season; Impact Statement? An EIS process that downstream. A secondary objective was (3) the Upper Basin would use Powell as this time around would include public the generation of electricity which was to the primary release valve to regulate the discussion and review, and an honest pay back the taxpayers within an initial amount of water that is delivered to the and transparent discussion of goals and 50-year period of time. The payback has Lower Basin states. objectives for the next 50 years. Glen been extended many more years now On this anniversary of CRSP the Canyon Institute continues to publicly and of course the taxpayers are going to Bureau should reflect on the past and call for a basin-wide EIS to evaluate the end up paying a larger percentage than realize that the Act as it was intended in future of water management in the was originally agreed to. The reality is 1956 will not and cannot continue to basin, to integrate environmental con- that the revenue generated from the provide the same functions as it did cerns, address Native American needs, CRSP dams has paid back a small per- then. Climate change, increased popula- and ensure that the river continues to centage of the original public loan and tion, changing demands (drinking water support the social needs of the water- more importantly has served as the open rather than irrigation water), reduced shed. Instead of the piecemeal checkbook by which the other dams and runoff volumes, endangered species approach of the past, let’s use the tech- irrigation projects in the basin were impacts, National Parks and reserva- nology and knowledge we’ve gained to funded. I like to refer to it as the tions, federally mandated Native work towards a comprehensive review Christmas Tree of CRSP: every orna- American water deliveries, and aging and development of a suite of opera- ment on that tree is funded out of a infrastructure all require an integrative tional options that reflect our changing checkbook backed by public funds. and cooperative discussion including all world. Glen Canyon Dam, April 15, 2005, water level 145 feet below full pool. Photo by Jim Kay — jameskay.com page 3 65391_Nwsltr4.qxd 12/19/06 10:29 AM Page 4 The Flood of ‘06 by Wade Graham October is normally a dry month on the Colorado Plateau, Canyon National Recreation Area, was on the scene to witness with high pressure squatting over the region. This last October, and document the events. In the last issue of Hidden Passage though, saw rainstorms of biblical proportions in the [HP XIII, Summer 2006], Bill shared with us a powerful, Colorado River basin, particularly in the south, with record- exquisite photo-essay demonstrating the restoration of parts of smashing flows gauged on the Dolores, San Juan, San Rafael, the Escalante River drainage over the 27 years that he has been Fremont/Dirty Devil, Escalante, and Paria Rivers in the first exploring it. Here, he offers us another chapter of the ongoing half of the month. Especially remark- able was rainfall in the immediate neighborhood of Lake Powell. The Escalante and the Dirty Devil ran bank-to-bank for successive days. The latter stream surged 15 feet or more at Hanksville, Utah on October 6 and 7.
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