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With projections showing a 71-foot rebound coming, Lake Powell resumes Grand Canyon’s experimental floods

Record snowpack expected to put 14.5 million acre-feet of water into upper Colorado, lift drought-depleted reservoir from its record low.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Glen Canyon Dam, which impounds the Colorado River in Lake Powell, on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021. The level of the reservoir is expected to rise about 50 feet over its historic lows registered this year as runoff from massive snowpacks reach the river.