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High Flow at Glen Canyon Dam

Water managers released a surge of water from the dam in late April to help preserve shrinking sandbars and shoreline habitats downstream.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Photographs by the Bureau of Reclamation. Thank you to Sinjin Eberle (American Rivers) for assistance with fact-checking. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published May 12, 2023
Data acquired April 19 - 27, 2023

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Landsat 9 > OLI-2
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