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Flooding the Grand Canyon
Wednesday, March 05, 2008 - Ehud Rattner
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A flood of water is set to be released today down the Grand Canyon, in an attempt to improve the Colorado River’s environment and study how best to maintain that. This is the third time in the past dozen years that water has been dumped from Glen Canyon Dam in northern Arizona to improve habitats downstream in the monumental gorge. Thanks to the dam, the river’s sandbars are only one-quarter of their original size. By pushing sediment into...    (source: nature.com)


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