On March 26, 1996 this Interior Secretary deliberately opened the flood gates of the Glen Canyon Dam
505883
Water Over the Dam - The Wildness Within Us  A year ago this week, on March 26, 1996, Dave Wegner and Secretary of the. Interior Bruce Babbitt were standing at the base of Glen Canyon Dam, ... The much-ballyhooed flood was planned by Glen Canyon Environmental Studies, or GCES, as an ... The first water ever spilled intentionally from a federal dam, it would run...
505884
Glen Canyon Dam - Wikipedia  Glen Canyon Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam on the Colorado River in northern Arizona, ... In addition to its flooding of the scenic Glen Canyon, the dam's economic ..... In March, Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall ordered the filling halted and ... At the beginning of June, dam operators opened the gates on the left...
505885
Science Assists Glen Canyon Dam Management | Science Features  Nov 14, 2012 ... Large floods once passed through the Grand Canyon each spring, formed by ... occurred during three previous controlled floods in 1996, 2004 and 2008. ... 19, U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will open the dam's river outlet ... River in the Grand Canyon during the high-flow experiment of March 2008.
505886
Three Experimental High-Flow Releases from Glen Canyon Dam ...  U.S. Department of the Interior. U.S. Geological ... known as artificial or controlled floods, were conducted by the U.S. Department of the. Interior at Glen Canyon Dam in March 1996, ... Jet tubes at Glen Canyon Dam release Colorado River water on the morning of March 5, 2008, ... 26 and April 7, 1996, including a 7-day.
505887
Ask Me A Trivia Question -- 2 -- - Discussion on Topix  Aug 5, 2012 ... On March 26, 1996 this Interior Secretary deliberately opened the flood gates of the Glen Canyon Dam. Reply . Report Abuse Judge it!
107103
Hoover Dam - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com  In honor of the new president's contributions, Secretary of the Interior Ray L. Wilbur announced the structure would be called Hoover Dam at a 1930 dedication...
536327
Civil Engineering Disasters  The St. Francis Dam Flooding  Jul 23, 2012 ... He was also responsible for the design and construction of the Los Angeles ... Without this aqueduct, Los Angeles probably would not have grown to the ... By definition, a gravity dam is one where that depends upon the force...
54440
Frank Wills, 52; Watchman Foiled Watergate Break-In - The New ...  Sep 29, 2000 ... Frank Wills, night watchman who discovered 1972 Watergate burglary, ... Mr. Wills, a 24-year-old security guard at the Watergate office building in ... although he did better than that when he played himself in the 1976 movie about ... Today's Arts  Art & Design  Books  Dance  Movies  Music  N.Y.C. Events...
74477
L. Patrick Gray - History Commons  [Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2007] Gray, a Navy veteran and a straight arrow who ... White House counsel John Dean orders the opening of a safe belonging to ... The documents will soon be given to FBI acting director L. Patrick Gray, who .... Gray is himself sharing Watergate investigation files with the White House,...
107102
Herbert Hoover . Hoover Dam . WGBH American Experience | PBS  At this point in his career, Herbert Hoover was growing used to such praise. ... Cast & Crew: ... Herbert Hoover served as Secretary of Commerce for President Warren ... under the Boulder Canyon Project Act, it shall be called the Hoover Dam. ... days after his defeat, Hoover traveled to visit the construction site of the dam he...
44132
Gale Norton - Wikipedia  Gale Ann Norton (born March 11, 1954) served as the 48th United States Secretary of the Interior from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush. She was the first woman to hold the position. ... In 2006, the Interior Department's inspector general initiated an investigation into potential links between Norton's former...
411568
Full text of "South Canyon fire investigation of the 14 fatalities that ...  Firefighters Assigned to the South Canyon Fire on July 6, 1994 A7-1 8. ... involved would have knowingly made decisions that led to the deaths of 14 firefighters. .... The lack of Grand Junction District and Colorado State Office man- agement oversight, ...... Feel that the blowup was caused by a sudden increase in the wind.
308452
Hoover Dam - Wikipedia  Hoover Dam, once known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
474738
The Lion at the Gate | Ashbrook  In the first months of his presidency in 1977, Jimmy Carter asked West ... two East German soldiers armed with automatic rifles stopped a man coming from ... If Mr. Gorbachev's actions match his words thenI said it there: Tear down the wall! ... time that perhaps the Wall might come down: Nothing is eternal in the world.
350821
Chapter 10 - National Park Service  Feb 12, 2004 ... Central Intelligence Agency and Army Special Forces. ... This Grim and Savage Game: OSS and the Beginning of U.S. Covert ... 5 William J. Donovan, Memorandum for the President, 18 November ... manuscript history of Donovan, the OSS, and the origins of the CIA in ...... convert it into a modern highway.
258627
Cabinet member guilty in Teapot Dome scandal - Oct 25, 1929 ...  During the Teapot Dome scandal, Albert B. Fall, who served as secretary of the interior in President Warren G. Harding's cabinet, is found guilty of ... had been previously transferred to the Department of the Interior on the urging of Fall, .... in South Carolina by a man who took her two small children in the backseat of her car.
307094
Glen Canyon Dam Bridge - HighestBridges.com  Jul 4, 2014 ... 700 feet high / 213 meters high 1,028 foot span / 313 meter span 1959. Image by Felicia Vereen. At the time of its completion in 1959, the Glen Canyon Dam bridge ... arch bridge in the world and the second highest bridge of any type. ... is Lake Powell, one of the largest reservoirs in the United States with a...
130819
Watergate Scandal Timeline - The Authentic History Center  This became especially important to the President in 1972, when he was ... (Hoover then died in May, 1972, and L. Patrick Gray was appointed acting director in his place). .... on behalf of the officials and heads of the Nixon re-election campaign. ... On March 19, 1973, convicted Watergate burglar and ex-CIA agent James...
47783
The Undamming of America  NOVA Next | PBS  Aug 12, 2015 ... Map created by liebannam ... Some of the names are charming: Lake O' the Woods Dam, Boys & Girls ... We completed 10,000 new dams between 1920 and 1950 and ... Grand Coulee Dam, which stopped the Columbia River in 1942, ... President Harry Truman said that power from Grand Coulee turned...
256039
Grand Coulee Dam Project Tour  I am power, I am strength, I am the River Columbia. ... Nearly, 200 years ago a bold captain Robert Gray became the first white man to enter .... At Grand Coulee Dam alone my waters can generate a staggering 6.5 million kilowatts, the ... now the Grand Coulee Dam with enormous capacity of Lake Roosevelt has sufficient...
136748
Record Drought Reveals Stunning Changes Along Colorado River  Nov 23, 2014 ... With Lake Powell, the Colorado River reservoir, at historic lows, kayakers ... A boat traces the curves of Reflection Canyon, part of Glen Canyon. ... west of Mexican Hat, Utah, to kayak across Lake Powell, a reservoir formed by the .... if the drought persists, we can expect to see hundreds of inundated ancient...