As Of 2/7/2026, Lake Powell Now Below 25% Of Capacity; Trash Screens Visible Above Penstocks On Dam Face

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7. True, most of the Escalante River is above the maximum reservoir elevation of 3,715 feet.

And re. the Grand Canyon - yes, with not one, but two dams.

Marble Canyon and Bridge Canyon weren't designed for irrigation or for flood control, but to generate hydropower revenue so that we could build more dams, so that we could generate more hydropower revenue so that we . . .

Sorry, where was I?

Oh yeah, the photograph above.

If you go to the right-hand side where the ring is broadest and where the "chomp" has been taken out of the fin, that's where Better Half and I camped 20 years ago last September, on a silt bar beneath the cliff.

The reservoir was at 3605 when we came through by raft via Cataract. Even then, with water levels 70 feet higher than they are now, we were camped next to a river, not a reservoir.