Richard Ingebretsen wants to drain Lake Powell. And he has a surprising insight on how to do it: “The man who built the dam, the man who called Lake Powell his own, had actually sketched for Eleanor and me the method to drain his reservoir.”
It was February 9, 1997. I was sitting in Boyce, Virginia, at a restaurant with Floyd Dominy, who was chief of the Bureau of Reclamation during construction of the Glen Canyon Dam. This was an unusual experience since we were in the process of forming a movement to drain his beloved “Jewel of the Colorado.”
We met at his house in the afternoon. On his several-acre property were over one dozen dams; he is a beaver to be sure. In a large room in the basement of his home, a fire was burning on this cold day. On the walls were mementos of his days at the Bureau of Reclamation. A huge painting of Hoover Dam was on the wall behind his desk, along with other photos of dams.
Well, that was the best I could do, so I agreed. We set the bookends up on his desk with Dominy posing behind them. As I prepared to take the photo, Dominy said, “Wait, I want to put a book in between them!” He walked over to his bookcase, giggling all the while, and brought back the pamphlet he wrote called, Lake Powell, Jewel of the Colorado. He placed this pamphlet in between the concrete drillings from the dam, and I took the photo of Dominy, who was still laughing.
Then he offered something startling. “Brower has proposed to drill out the original bypass tunnels to drain the reservoir. Well, you can’t do that. It is 300 feet of reinforced concrete.” He lowered his glasses on his nose and continued. “There is a better way. All you have to do is drill new bypass tunnels around the old ones in the sandstone; then you can put waterproof valves at the bottom of the lake. They can be raised and lowered as you need, to let water out.
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